Symfony and jQuery.data()

Question

I have an ajax navigation system in my app. Each ajax link is of class ajax and the page it needs to load is saved in an aurl attribute, for example:

<a class="ajax" aurl="/user/posts/3/edit">Edit Post</a>

The aurl is given to the element using symfony's url_for method in the server-side.

I thought about more elegant way of saving the element's aurl attribute, like jQuery.data(), but how can i use it from the server side? creating a script after each element to set it's aurl doesn't seem like a good solution..

Any ideas?

ThiefMaster · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-26 07:20:52Z

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<a class="ajax" data-aurl="/user/posts/3/edit">Edit Post</a>

Then you can access it through .data('aurl') if you use a recent jQuery version (1.5 or newer AFAIK).

However, why don't you simply set the href (which should be set anyway) and then use $(this).attr('href') to get the url and use e.preventDefault(); (with e being the first argument of the click handler function) to prevent the link from loading without AJAX?

answered Aug 26, 2011 at 7:20

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tamir Over a year ago

I wanted to use data so that i don't have to spread the links all over the app.. so I would have <a class="ajax edit">Edit Post</a> and it's url will be saved "behind the scenes"

ThiefMaster Over a year ago

If you want to set data related to the element it should be set there, i.e. through a data- attribute. Moving URLs away from the related links would just make things confusing.

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