i am new to cakephp and trying to send data from ajax to my controller action.. i have a popup model in which there is a input box ..i want to grab that value and send to controller without page refresh
here is my code ..
<a class="button anthracite-gradient" onclick="openPrompt()">submit </a>
my javascript
function openPrompt()
{
var cancelled = true;
$.modal.prompt('Please enter a value:', function(value)
{
$.ajax({
type:"POST",
url:"/cakephp/controller/action/",
success : function(data) {
alert(value); //value right now is in this variable ... i want to send this variable value to the controller
},
error : function() {
alert("false");
}
});
}, function()
{
});
};
</script>
myController
public function action(){
if( $this->request->is('ajax') ) {
$new = $this->request->data;
echo "ok"
return;
}
}
i want to first get the value here and then send the response to may ajax request