[wp-hackers] Talking to Ajax

[Dino Termini]

Thank you Rafael and Kevin. FWIW, the problem in my case was that I had 
forgotten to pass the nonce as a hidden field.

By the way, happy April Fool's Day.

Dino.

On 3/31/2012 11:43 PM, Kevin Stover wrote:
> Hey Dino,
>
> I use ajax quite a bit in many plugins. One of the things that I noticed is
> you have closed-**postboxes in the first part of your add_action, and
> closed_postboxes in your second half. Make sure that your ajax request uses
> the right one. I've done silly things like that before. Secondly, make sure
> that you put a "die();" at the end of your called php function
> closed_postboxes(){}.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Kevin
>
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Rafael Ehlers<rafaehlers at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> This screencast talks about the exactly issue your on:
>> http://pippinsplugins.com/plugin-thoughts-episode-4-learn-how-core-does-it/
>>
>> ,please watch!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Dino Termini<dino at duechiacchiere.it
>>> wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I am developing a plugin that displays a bunch of meta boxes. I'm trying
>>> to do something when the 'Show on screen' checkbox for the corresponding
>>> meta box is (un)selected. So I added
>>>
>>> add_action('wp_ajax_closed-**postboxes',  'closed_postboxes');
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> function closed_postboxes(){
>>>         echo 'yeah';
>>> }
>>>
>>> to test it. But according to Firebug, admin-ajax.php returns -1, and the
>>> hook is not executed. What am I missing? I found this page
>>>
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/**AJAX_in_Plugins<
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins>
>>> Can you please point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dino.
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