Although Prototype is the default Javascript Framework for CakePHP, using JQuery (or any other Ajax Framework) with Cake could not be easier. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of integrating JQuery with Cake was trying to find documentation on some of those little things that are necessary to return a result set without an error (see my post, CakePHP and Ajax: Missing View).
Note: I purposely wrote this post as if I were speaking to someone who has never used CakePHP. So some parts of this post may be common knowledge to the more experienced Bakers.
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) to help me get started. I was working on a project where web pages would be dynamically created. I have to admit, I struggled. Although Dojo is a “Javascript” Framework, learning it was like learning a new language – before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. While I was able to learn the basics from reading the books and looking at the examples on Dojo’s website, in many cases, I just could not find the documentation to do what I wanted to do (or how I wanted to do it). So I guessed. And guessed again. And continually guessed until, “Eureka!”. No that didn’t work either…
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