It is possible to parse an ExpressionEngine snippet inside a page via Ajax?

Question

It is possible to parse an ExpressionEngine snippet inside a page via Ajax ?

like:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="10"}
    <h2>{title}</h2>
    {body}
{/exp:channel:entries}

The EE code would be processed and returned as html or not??

Answer 1

I don't think so unless you write a plugin to access the code in the DB. However you could easily create a hidden template IE ( _parsed_data.html). Then AJAX load it in to your to your current template using Jquery AJAX .load().

$("div#parsedData").load("{site_url}/templategroup/_parsed_data.html");

You can also with javascript depending on how you generate that url pass parameter restrictions through the url using segments.

Data Template:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="{segment_3}"}
    <h2>{title}</h2>
    {body}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Viewed Template:

var seg3 = 3;

$("div#parsedData").load("{site_url}/templategroup/_parsed_data.html/ '+ seg3");