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Load Chat Panel via Ajax

Hello @all,

i am coding a chat and with pure PHP it is working perfect for me. But now i want to implement it into my Vokuro system and i have some problems.

The params are send via ajax(-> userid and username), but they don't reach the function in my Controller, as response i get the whole site. It should look/open like the facebook chat right bottom.

jQuery:

      var $panel;
        $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: 'chat/chatPanel?chatUserId='+chatUserId+'&chatUserText='+chatUserText,
            async: false,
            success : function(text)
            {
                $panel = text;
            }
        });
        $($panel).appendTo("#chatPosition");

ChatPanel.volt (still pure PHP i know :-) )

  <div class="panel panel-default chatBox" id="chatBox'.$chatUserId.'">

  <div class="panel-heading">
      <ul class="list-inline">
          <li class="list-inline-item pull-left"><h1 class="chatUserHeader"><a href="#" class="btn btn-link btn-xs">'.$chatUserText.'</a></h1></li>
          <li class="list-inline-item pull-right"><button class="btn-link btn-xs chatBoxSlideDown'.$chatUserId.'"><i class="fa fa-window-minimize fa-lg" aria-hidden="true"></i></button></li>
          <li class="list-inline-item pull-right"><button class="btn-link btn-xs chatBoxClose'.$chatUserId.'"><i class="fa fa-times fa-lg" aria-hidden="true"></i></button></li>
      </ul>
  </div>
  <div class="panel-body">
      <table class="table" id="panelId'.$chatUserId.'"></table>
  </div>

  <div class="panel-footer chatFooter">
      <div class="form-group">
          <textarea placeholder="Message" id="chatTextArea'.$chatUserId.'"></textarea>
      </div>

      <div class="form-group">
          <button class="btn btn-success"  id="chatBtnSend'.$chatUserId.'">Absenden</button>
      </div>

  </div>
  </div>

Controller. The chatPanelAction function should load the chatPanel.volt template

<?php
namespace Vokuro\Controllers;

use Phalcon\Tag;
use Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria;
use Phalcon\Paginator\Adapter\Model as Paginator;
use Vokuro\Forms\ChatForm;
use Vokuro\Models\Chat;
use Phalcon\Http\Request;

class ChatController extends ControllerBase{

    public function initialize(){
        $this->view->setTemplateBefore('private');
    }
    public function indexAction(){

    }

    public function chatPanelAction(){
        $request = new Request();
        $user = $request->get("chatUserId");
        echo "MAIL: ".$user;
    }

    public function getMessageAction(){

    }
    public function addMessageAction(){

    }

}

Thx for your help

Rgds Stefan



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edited Dec '16

$request = new Request();

Why you do this ? Just do $this->request->get("chatUserId");

How your route looks like ? Maybe it's loaded on some other page and since you added link as relative it's accessing for example /otherPage/chat/chatPanel

Check which url browser is accessing if it's correct one, test it like die or exit in this action. If it's not accessing show your router.



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hi,

in controller action chatPanelAction(), set render level to level view so that just chatPanel.volt is rendered and not all the full view hierarchy.


        $this->view->setRenderLevel(
            View::LEVEL_ACTION_VIEW
        );


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also, as said, while using a full mvc app, you can have direct acces to request objects.

and, in your chatPanelAction(), you do not pass any variable to the view ...



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Hello,

thx for your replies:

i added a router now:

$router->add('chat/chatPanel/{code}/{code}', [
    'controller' => 'chat_control',
    'action' => 'chatPanel'
]);

Here is the new function, now the panel is loading but with this message:

 Fatal error: Class 'Vokuro\Controllers\View' not found in

public function chatPanelAction(){
    $this->request->get("chatUserId");

    $this->view->setRenderLevel(
        View::LEVEL_ACTION_VIEW
    );
}

I know that there is no variable now.

Rgds Stefan



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Fatal error: Class 'Vokuro\Controllers\View' not found in just such class is not loaded, existing. you miss use Phalcon\Mvc\View



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Accepted
answer
edited Dec '16

Got it!

Controller

public function chatPanelAction(){
    $id = $this->request->get("chatUserId");
    $user = $this->view->chat = Users::findFirst($id);
    $this->view->setVar('user',$user);
    $this->view->setRenderLevel(
        View::LEVEL_ACTION_VIEW
    );
}

Panel

    <div class="panel panel-default chatBox" id="chatBox{{user.id}}">

        <div class="panel-heading">
            <ul class="list-inline">
                <li class="list-inline-item pull-left"><h1 class="chatUserHeader"><a href="#" class="btn btn-link btn-xs">{{user.name}}</a></h1></li>
                <li class="list-inline-item pull-right"><button class="btn-link btn-xs chatBoxSlideDown{{user.id}}"><i class="fa fa-window-minimize fa-lg" aria-hidden="true"></i></button></li>
                <li class="list-inline-item pull-right"><button class="btn-link btn-xs chatBoxClose{{user.id}}"><i class="fa fa-times fa-lg" aria-hidden="true"></i></button></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <div class="panel-body">
            <table class="table" id="panelId{{user.id}}"></table>
        </div>

        <div class="panel-footer chatFooter">
            <div class="form-group">
                <textarea placeholder="Message" id="chatTextArea{{user.id}}"></textarea>
            </div>

            <div class="form-group">
                <button class="btn btn-success"  id="chatBtnSend{{user.id}}">Absenden</button>
            </div>

        </div>
    </div>

Thank you very much :-)



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good !