[wp-hackers] AJAX for the frontend

[scribu]

Sorry, I meant Expert IT dude.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've updated that page to avoid threads like this in the future.
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> Thanks Tynan for forcing the improvement of the Codex. :)
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Tynan Colin Beatty <junsuijin at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I think there is an undocumented 'wp_ajax_nopriv' hook you may want to
>> look
>> at. I've not any experience in using it yet, so I can't be more specific
>> than that.
>> peace~
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>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Expert IT Dude
>> <expert.it.dude at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> > "Implementing Ajax on the viewer-facing side of a WordPress site is
>> > slightly more ad-hoc than doing Ajax on the administration side,
>> > because WordPress itself doesn't have viewer-facing Ajax built in"
>> > (http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins)
>> >
>> > 'Slightly' is a gross understatement. Let's call this what it actually
>> > is: A hack. Spent half a day hunting for an AJAX interface in the WP
>> > front-end and discovered it doesn't exist.
>> >
>> > It would literally only be about 50 lines or so of code to write a
>> > wp-ajax.php file for the root WP directory that has a singular hook
>> > that plugins could utilize for a callback. Even if the WP frontend
>> > doesn't ever use it, plugins could cleanly and consistently leverage
>> > the hooking interface for whatever AJAX they want on the frontend. It
>> > would pretty much be a copy-and-paste from the admin-ajax.php script
>> > (with maybe a couple changes to wp-settings.php), is something a core
>> > WP developer could crank out in an evening, and would save us plugin
>> > developers a major headache. We could then just simply use
>> > jQuery.load('wp-ajax.php', {...}); (or similar) from wherever and,
>> > bam!, instant AJAX support for our plugins on the frontend complete
>> > with a clean hooking interface similar to what admin-side AJAX plugins
>> > already have.
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