How do you organize your controllers, methods, views when you use a MVC model with jQuery with lots of AJAX bits?
Question 1
Do you have a separate controller just for AJAX calls, or do you mix the AJAX methods together with your usual non-AJAX methods in one single controller?
Question 2
If you were to mix AJAX and non-AJAX methods in a single controller, do you have separate AJAX and non-AJAX methods, or do you combine them together (if possible) and pass in a value (NULL or AJAX) which determines whether a normal view or a AJAX view is passed back to the browser.
Question 3
If you have 50 different AJAX calls, and each call requires a method, which in turn requires a view, we end up with a controller with 50 methods and 50 views. Is this good MVC practice? I can think of all AJAX methods in the controller sharing a single view, where the view file contains case conditional statements and the view file is passed a parameter which determines which of the 50 cases will be used. Kind of like compressing 50 views into 1.
Question 4
Instead of having so many views (50 views), what do you think of echoing the output in in the controller method rather than in the view? This way we won't have so many views.
BTW, I'm using CodeIgniter PHP framework for my MVC model