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AJAX in the TYPO3 Backend

In TYPO3 4.2 a new model for writing AJAX code in the TYPO3 Backend was introduced. Although there were some parts in the TYPO3 Backend that used AJAX already, they are now unified into a single interface that handles errors and dispatches the different calls to their final locations. This way it is ensured that e.g. a BE user is logged in and all TYPO3 variables are loaded.

The whole architecture builds on top of successful techniques developers already know. It's a mixture between the eID concept from the TYPO3 Frontend, the hooking idea we know from other places in TYPO3, piped through a single small AJAX file typo3/ajax.php that creates a PHP AJAX object to see if an error occurred or not. If something went wrong, the X-JSON header is set to false and the client-side AJAX request (an AJAX responder in the Prototype Javascript framework) will know that there is an error.

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• Developing with AJAX in the TYPO3 Backend