How to load views via Ajax with Zend Framework?

use Ajax context switching you can do it by adding this to your init function in your controller

public function init()
{
 $ajaxContext = $this->_helper->getHelper('AjaxContext');
 $ajaxContext->addActionContext('my', 'html') //my is your action
                ->initContext();
}

The html parameter is the type of Ajax request. it can also be JSON or XML

public function myAction() {
    // get what you are sending to your view : data
    $this->view->data = $data;
}

create a view my.ajax.phtml to which which myAction will attempt to render to it by default and then include my.ajax.phtml in your view (your main content div)

With Zend 1.12 we used the Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Json;

Controller:

use Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Json;

class MyController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
    public function init() {
        Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper(new Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Json());
    }

    public function fooAction() {
        $this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(200);
        $this->_helper->json(array('value' => 1));
    }
}

View:

• No view file

Output:

{"value":1}

Call:

http://example/my/foo