[wp-hackers] Problem with AJAX actions

[Peter Westwood]

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Jason Maskell wrote:
| Hey guys, I'm a bit of a newbie to Wordpress, so pardon me if I've
wandered
| onto the dev list.
|
| I'm not a newbie programmer by any means, but today I've been taking a
first
| crack at extending an existing plugin and running into some ajax problems,
| probably due to my lack of understanding of how WP does it.
|
| I've registered an action:
|
| add_action('wp_ajax_nzshpcrt_createbucket','nzshpcrt_createbucket');
|
| And the nzshpcrt_createbucket function exists.. My ajax gets hit in the
| admin page and sends the request to:
|
| wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
| ?action=nzshpcrt_createbucket&name=Tester22233&cookie=[snip...]
|
| That returns a simple 0 which tells me I'm not getting the output of the
| function back, which should be JSON. So, what have I missed? How do I
check
| into why Wordpress is not doing what I think it should be doing?
|

Are you sending a GET request as that implies or a POST request?

admin-ajax.php handles POST requests.

westi
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Peter Westwood
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