Create custom button button with AJAX function in CGridView

How-tos

ajax request, CGridView

1. [Introduction](#Intro)
 
2. [How to](#Howto)
 
3. [One example](#example)
 
 
<a id="Intro">Introduction</a>
 
========### Introduction CButtonColumn in CGridView can be customised to include user built buttons. To learn a great deal about including custom buttons, [read this excellent wiki](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/106/using-cbuttoncolumn-to-customize-buttons-in-cgridview/ "this excellent wiki"). This tutorial will show how to call an action from one custom button using **AJAX** instead of regular GET calls. <a id="Howto">How to</a>
 
========### How to
1. Create a custom button in your grid. You can follow [this tutorial](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/106/using-cbuttoncolumn-to-customize-buttons-in-cgridview/ "this excellent wiki") for that.
2. In the 'url' parameter of your button, you call your controller action:This will call the controller function using AJAX instead of redirecting the user to the url using GET parameters.

<a id="example">Example</a>
 
========### Example
We will create a button that sends email to the user and then prints a success flash screen.~~~