Laravel won't submit ajax

[makamo66]

I'm trying to get the user/dashboard page to submit as ajax. My console shows ABOUT TO SEND  SUCCESS!  Done. so that means the jquery post was sent but I keep getting "No ajax" on the user/dashboard page. How do I submit a page as ajax?

 

added to routes.php

Route::post('user/dashboard', array('before' => 'suth', 'uses' => 'UserController@calendar'));

added to UsersController.php

   public function calendar(){
print_r($_POST);
  if (Request::ajax()) {
        return "yeahhhh";
     }
        return "<br />No ajax";
  return View::make('user.dashboard.index');
}

added to main.js

 $.ajax({
    url: 'http://beta.opentemp.local/user/dashboard',
    data: {} + "&_token=" + $("input[name=_token]").val(),
    type: 'POST',
    'beforeSend': function(xhr, settings) {
      console.log('ABOUT TO SEND');
    },
    'success': function(result, status_code, xhr) {
      console.log('SUCCESS!');
    },
    'complete': function(xhr, text_status) {
      console.log('Done.');
    },
    'error': function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {


alert("Error with ajax Function: "+ textStatus+" "+errorThrown); }
  });

 

[trq]

What does the console show as returning from the request?

[sKunKbad]

I believe you need to echo your response, not return it. Also, your Ajax should probably declare a data type, and add result to the call to console.log.

[bastion]

You don't echo the response, you return it -- this is correct.

 

The 'suth' filter could be stopping this route from executing, without seeing that everything else looks fine.