Refs #2538: Pulled in support for ajax actions

git-svn-id: http://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@7184 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

diff --git a/engine/lib/actions.php b/engine/lib/actions.php
index 63ddfcbfb8bf7e39c22fbd435597d12493fd11a6..fef6004ccf3fab63b85337c7a23cf8874ba2164b 100644 (file)
--- a/engine/lib/actions.php
+++ b/engine/lib/actions.php
@@ -351,4 +351,89 @@ function elgg_action_exist($action) {
        global $CONFIG;
 
        return (isset($CONFIG->actions[$action]) && file_exists($CONFIG->actions[$action]['file']));
-}
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+}
+
+/**
+ * Initialize some ajaxy actions features
+ */
+function actions_init()
+{
+       register_action('security/refreshtoken', TRUE);
+       
+       elgg_view_register_simplecache('js/languages/en');
+               
+       register_plugin_hook('action', 'all', 'ajax_action_hook');
+       register_plugin_hook('forward', 'all', 'ajax_forward_hook');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Checks whether the request was requested via ajax
+ * 
+ * @return bool whether page was requested via ajax
+ */
+function elgg_is_xhr() {
+       return isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) 
+               && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest'; 
+}
+
+/**
+ * Catch calls to forward() in ajax request and force an exit.
+ * 
+ * Forces response is json of the following form:
+ * <pre>
+ * {
+ *     "current_url": "the.url.we/were/coming/from",
+ *     "forward_url": "the.url.we/were/going/to",
+ *     "system_messages": {
+ *         "messages": ["msg1", "msg2", ...],
+ *         "errors": ["err1", "err2", ...]
+ *     },
+ *     "status": -1 //or 0 for success if there are no error messages present
+ * }
+ * </pre>
+ * where "system_messages" is all message registers at the point of forwarding
+ * 
+ * @param string $hook
+ * @param string $type 
+ * @param string $reason
+ * @param array $params
+ * 
+ */
+function ajax_forward_hook($hook, $type, $reason, $params) {
+       if (elgg_is_xhr()) {
+               //grab any data echo'd in the action
+               $output = ob_get_clean();
+               
+               //Avoid double-encoding in case data is json
+               $json = json_decode($output);
+               if (isset($json)) {
+                       $params['output'] = $json;
+               } else {
+                       $params['output'] = $output;
+               }
+               
+               //Grab any system messages so we can inject them via ajax too
+               $params['system_messages'] = system_messages(NULL, "");
+               
+               if (isset($params['system_messages']['errors'])) {
+                       $params['status'] = -1;
+               } else {
+                       $params['status'] = 0;
+               }
+               
+               header("Content-type: application/json");
+               echo json_encode($params);
+               exit;
+       }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Buffer all output echo'd directly in the action for inclusion in the returned JSON.
+ */
+function ajax_action_hook() {
+       if (elgg_is_xhr()) {
+               ob_start();
+       }
+}
+
+register_elgg_event_handler('init', 'system', 'actions_init');
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