controller functions that are only accessible to jquery or ajax

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Keep your function accessible so that you can query it via AJAX, and in the controller itself, test if it's an ajax call via is_ajax_request(). See manual here, very bottom: http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...input.html

An example might be something like:

Code:

public function get_cities()
{
     if(! $this->input->is_ajax_request())
          show_404();

     // Otherwise, proceed as usual!
}