How do I create an AJAX filter for a view?

Question

I have created a page using Views and it works fine. I want to add an AJAX filter to this page to allow visitors to filter the contents based on PubDate or by Taxonomy/Vocabulary for this content type. How can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

1. Edit the view, and add a filter to the page:

   • Drupal 6: Third column, section is called Filters
   • Drupal 7: First column, section is called Filter Criteria

2. When you configure the filter, you want to expose it:

   • Drupal 6: Click the Expose button in the top right of the configure area
   • Drupal 7: Check Expose this filter to visitors, to allow them to change it

3. Enable AJAX:

   • Drupal 6: Use AJAX is under Basic settings in the first column
   • Drupal 7: Use AJAX is under Advanced → Other in the third column

When the view is saved, there will now be a form that'll allow users to filter the view dynamically via AJAX.

Answer 2

Maybe, you can use the Better exposed filters module to change output of your filter items to links.

And Use AJAX option in Advanced settings of a view to make filtering ajaxifyed.

http://drupal.org/project/better_exposed_filters