I realize this can be done with ajax. Just wanted to see if this is possible via codeigniter
I would like an ajax click event to trigger codeigniter to send data to the currently loaded view. In my example, I would like to populate an empty ul with names pulled from a database.
//SETUP
//html. This file is views/index.php. This is an example of what I want to do
<ul>
<?php
foreach ($names as $name)
{
echo "<li>".$name."</li>";
}
?>
</ul>
//ajax
$(".button").click(function() {
$.ajax({
method: 'GET',
datatype: 'jsonp',
url: 'localhost/tableseating/tables/load_names'
});
});
//controller
public function load_names()
{
$names = $this->My_model->load_names();
//this is the current view already
$this->load->view('index', $names);
}
//model
public function load_names()
{
$q = "SELECT first_name FROM `users`";
$query = $this->db->query($q);
$result = $query->result();
return $result;
}