ci is ajax request,php - Check for Ajax request in CodeIgniter - Stack Overflow

There is no need to add an if (!$this->input->is_ajax_request()) to every AJAX method if you use hooks (CI docs). This is based on Jorge's solution in here with a few slight improvements:

config/config.php

Enable CI hooks by changing the default value (from FALSE):

$config['enable_hooks'] = TRUE;

config/hooks.php

Add the following at the end:

$hook['post_controller_constructor'] = array(

'class' => 'Ajax_only',

'function' => 'show_404_on_illegal_ajax',

'filename' => 'Ajax_only.php',

'filepath' => 'hooks'

);

post_controller_constructor: called immediately after your controller is instantiated, but prior to any method calls happening

config/ajax_methods.php

Create a new config file with all the controllers and methods that should only be invoked when an AJAX request is made:

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

/*

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

| References to all AJAX controllers' methods or the controller itself

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

|

| Based on Jorge's solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43484330/6225838

| Key: controller name

| Possible values:

| - array: method name as key and boolean as value (TRUE => IS_AJAX)

| - boolean: TRUE if all the controller's methods are for AJAX requests

|

*/

$config['welcome'] = [

'index' => FALSE, // or 0 -> this line can be removed (just for reference)

'ajax_request_method_1' => TRUE, // or 1

'ajax_request_method_2' => TRUE, // or 1

];

$config['ajax_troller'] = TRUE;

hooks/Ajax_only.php

Create the hook itself, which detects if the current controller and/or its methods are present on the new config file above. If so, it shows the 404 default page when the current request is not AJAX and the method/controller has a truthy value in the config:

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Ajax_only {

public function __construct()

{

$this->CI = &get_instance();

$this->CI->config->load('ajax_methods');

}

public function show_404_on_illegal_ajax()

{

$fetched_troller_val = $this->CI->config->item(

$this->CI->router->fetch_class()

);

$fetched_method = $this->CI->router->fetch_method();

$is_ajax_method = is_array($fetched_troller_val) &&

// verify if the method's name is present

isset($fetched_troller_val[$fetched_method]) &&

// verify if the value is truthy

$fetched_troller_val[$fetched_method];

// if the controller is not in the config file then

// config->item() returned NULL

if($fetched_troller_val !== NULL &&

$this->CI->input->is_ajax_request() === FALSE &&

($fetched_troller_val === TRUE || $is_ajax_method)

) {

show_404();

}

}

}