Hi, I have quite a heavy homepage with a lot of children dataset that are also displayed with data and images.

Would it be possible to extend Silverstripe to fetch the children only via jQuery AJAX?

Thanks ben

I am trying to do something similar to this myself, but finding it difficult to find resources online for this topic!

I have set up a News Holder Page and a News Page. But I want to populate the holder via Ajax rather than loading everything at once, probably triggered when the browser is scrolled down down beyond currently loaded news.

I have a function in my controller which can return a specified amount of news teasers.

But I guess what I really need is for some way to tell my function that I already have X amount of data displayed on the page and I need you to continue loading from this point!

Does that make sense?

Has anybody done anything similar to this? Any assistance would be very appreciated.

Thanks Jay

On further investigation I have discovered the PaginatedList class, this may help me I think!

I think I am getting closer! But for some reason the $results will not render to my template! Can anyone help?

public function LatestNews(SS_HTTPRequest $request) {

if ((!isset($request)) || (!$request->requestVars())) {
$length = 2;
$current = 1;
} else {
$length = $request->getVar('length');
$current = $request->getVar('current');
}

$holder = ArticleHolder::get()->First();

$results = new PaginatedList(ArticlePage::get()->filter('ParentID', $holder->ID)->sort('Date DESC'));

$results->setPageLength($length);

$results->setCurrentPage($current);

return $results->renderWith('ArticleHolder');
}

You're calling renderWith on the Paginated list directly which works but you would need to use loop $Me to refer to the current object in scope. You also won't get any other variables from the current controller. A potential 'better' way is calling renderWith on the controller.

return $this->customise(new ArrayData(array(
'Results' => $results
))->renderWith('ArticleHolder');

Then you can use

<ul>
<% loop $Results %>
<li><a href="$Link">$Title</a></li>
<% end_loop %>
</ul>

Thanks for the reply, after much reading today I think I finally got there earlier.

I did this in the end:

public function LatestNews(SS_HTTPRequest $request) {

if (!isset($request->requestVars)) {
$length = 1;
$current = 1;
} else {
$length = $request->getVar('length');
$current = $request->getVar('current');
}

$holder = ArticleHolder::get()->First();

$results = new PaginatedList(ArticlePage::get()->filter('ParentID', $holder->ID)->sort('Date DESC'));

$results->setPageLength($length);

$results->setCurrentPage($current);

return $results->customise(array('LatestNews' => $results))->renderWith('newsteaser');
}

It seems to be working at the moment!

Thanks again.