Ajax - Render JSon to HTML : View vs Controller

Question

I want to append the results of an Ajax request to a table I have on my page. I see 2 ways of rendering the rows :

• my Controller could return a JSon array that I will then decode in the view and create a Javascript function to properly add the adequate HTML markup

• my Controller could directly return the HTML

What is the best practice on that matter?

Answer 1

I usually use that ways

• Send ajax to PHP file with dataType: 'json'

• At PHP : I processing data and json_encode the data array and die it to return result to HTML

• on Success function of Ajax, i process the data