22.5 Detecting an AJAX Request
Sometimes its useful to within the route whether a request has been made using AJAX.
Fortunately Laravel provides a method to detect AJAX requests. Let’s take a look.
1 <?php
2
3 // application/routes.php
4 Route::get('content', function() {
5
6 // check to see if the request is
7 // an AJAX one.
8 if (Request::ajax())
9 {
10 // provide the ajax content
11 return View::make('only_content');
12 }
13
14 // provide the full content
15 return View::make('content_with_layout');
16
17 });
The Request::ajax() returns a boolean true if the request is an AJAX request, and boolean
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