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Movie Project: Integrate Ajax Functionality for Drupal 7

  
Last updated June 7, 2017
Module Development7.x

Render content which can be refreshed via Ajax.

Objectives and Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Resources section at the bottom of this page.

  1. Designing architecture to create Ajax behavior.
  2. Embed views programmatically.
  3. Return content via an Ajax request.

Tasks

Write the steps which will be involved in creating an Ajax-enabled content area. Begin with the step of getting markup of a rendered view, using the tids from the user preferences as arguments.

Create the necessary view which will return film suggestions.

Create markup to render the film suggestions.

Ajax enable the film suggestions area using jQuery. Use a button to trigger the Ajax request.

Summary

  • Any Ajax-related functionality needs to be well thought out.
  • We can render views programmatically to create custom content in pages.

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