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Jake Brown
Jake Brown

Reputation: 11

Can I redirect a URL to a specific content populated by Ajax in a different page?

First of all, thanks to anyone who tries to crack their head over this.. I already got 12 stitches.

This is what I have:

  1. mysite.com/documentation - documentation page with menu div and content div (content div will be populated by Ajax when clicking on item in menu div).

  2. mysite.com/documentation/subject-1-content - the actual content page of a menu item in the documentation page. This will be populated into the div by Ajax.

My problem is that if someone goes directly to mysite.com/documentation/subject-1-content , they get to the actual content and not the documentation page with this content populated in the div.

Is it possible at all to redirect a URL to a different URL + to activate an Ajax that calls the content of the first URL + not create an infinite loop of redirections?

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 34

Answers (2)

gafi
gafi

Reputation: 12709

If you need to do it on the client side, you can make the content page mysite.com/documentation/subject-1-content redirect automatically to the documentation page possibly with a query param or hash, and the documentation page can read that param and load the required ajax content

Upvotes: 0

Carlos Alves Jorge
Carlos Alves Jorge

Reputation: 1985

If I understand correctly you want to make a redirect if the page is not accessed through an ajax call.

Ajax calls pass a header called HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH. I'm assuming you are using PHP as server side so the code to detect the header and redirect in case it is empty (direct call to the page) would be:

if(empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) {
    header("Location: mysite.com/documentation");
die;
}
//rest of your code

Upvotes: 0

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