how to retrieve data sent by Ajax in Cakephp?

Question

I have been stuck at this problem for a whole day. What im trying to do is to send 2 values from view to controller using Ajax. This is my code in hot_products

Answer 1

If you method is POST:

 if($this->request->is('ajax'){
$this->request->data['start_time'];
$this->layout = 'ajax';
}

OR

public function somefunction(){  
$this->request->data['start_time'];  
$this->autoRender = false;

ANd if method is GET:

 if($this->request->is('ajax'){
$this->request->query('start_time');
$this->layout = 'ajax';
}  

OR

public function somefunction(){  
$this->request->query('start_time');  
$this->autoRender = false;