Initializing eo after ajax call

[Adrian Maleska]

I’m using the Central-theme that’s using ajax to loading pages. Unfortunately the makers don’t seem to go the usual worpress codex ajax-way
so checks like the following one will fail:

if (defined('DOING_AJAX') && DOING_AJAX) 

Still I can do a general ajax check which works fine but I’m not sure how exactly and which eo files I should load. The code’s placed inside my configuration plugin.

  define( 'EVENT_ORGANISER_DIR', '../event-organiser/' );

  if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && 
    !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && 
    strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest')
    { 
      require_once(EVENT_ORGANISER_DIR.'event-organiser.php');
    }

Actually the only case where I have to initialize eo by myself is before calling the booking form via shortcode [event_booking_form]. The Datepicker isn’t there…

[Stephen Harris]

Central-theme is doing it wrong then I’m afraid 🙂 Ajax requests should go to ../wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (for frontend or admin originated ajax calls), as that loads WordPress properly.

In any case to load Event Organiser, you must first load WordPress – in fact if you load WordPress it’ll automatically load Event Organiser (if activated).

This what WordPress does it: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/3.8-branch/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

• Bootstraps WP via wp-load.php
• Sets appropriate headers
• Triggers the appropriate reaction so plug-ins can respond.

But obviously you’d need to determine where wp-load.php is in order to load it. If using a custom file to handle ajax then there’s no real point in implementing (3).

But really this a massive but with the theme..

[Adrian Maleska]

Thank you Stephen for this interesting insights. I’m new to wp so I still have to learn what the right way is to do certain things. On my own old webpage I would just load the init php files and done. In this case it’s tougher. Fortunatelly the theme is doing one good thing (besides looking great) – it allows to exclude certain uri’s from being loaded . This is my option for now. I will fight against ajax an other day … after xmas 😉

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