Ajax recommendation

[eluser]whitey5759[/eluser]
The way I like to do it is yes, create my own JS file for each View so that there is NO Javascript at all in the actual View PHP, just a 'script' tag to include it. Directory wise I structure it like this:

/thewebsite/assets/css
/thewebsite/assets/images
/thewebsite/assets/js/views/theView.js
/thewebsite/system/application/views/theView.php

Nice clean seperation, and it also means that the JS will get cached by the browser and minimise your users downloads each time they refresh or re-visit a page.

Then your JS just calls functions in the corresponding Controller, and I get these functions to where appropriate return JSON so that in both PHP and JS you are dealing with objects (assuming that, like me, you return objects from your Model and not associative arrays), and not having to deal with objects in PHP, then arrays in JS, etc.