Yii ajax Link

This is just a simple tutorial for creating an ajaxLink in Yii.

In view that contains the link:

echo CHtml::ajaxLink( "Link Text", Yii::app()->createUrl( 'myController/ajaxRequest' ), array( // ajaxOptions 'type' =>; 'POST', 'beforeSend' => "function( request ) { // Set up any pre-sending stuff like initializing progress indicators }", 'success' => "function( data ) { // handle return data alert( data ); }", 'data' => array( 'val1' => '1', 'val2' => '2' ) ), array( //htmlOptions 'href' => Yii::app()->createUrl( 'myController/ajaxRequest' ), 'class' => $class ) );

In the MyController.php file:

public function accessRules() { return array( array('allow', 'actions'=>array('ajaxrequest'), 'users'=>array('@'), ), // ... array('deny', // deny all users 'users'=>array('*'), ), ); } public function actionAjaxRequest() { echo "some sort of response";   Yii::app()->end(); }