This component was dropped in v5. If you come from v4 and upgrade your app, this can be a 1:1 replacement to allow using the same code as before until further refactoring is possible.
Load e.g. using
$options = ['viewClassMap' => ['rss' => 'Feed.Rss'], 'enableBeforeRedirect' => false];
$this->loadComponent('Shim.RequestHandler', $options);
One of the useful functionality of this component is the globally available auto switch for e.g. AJAX layout (= none), rendering out the same page without the surrounding layout.
This can be useful when rendering AJAXified pagination.
<?php $this->append('script');?>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('body').on('click', 'div.paging a', function() {
$('div#messageContainer').fadeTo(300, 0);
var thisHref = $(this).attr("href");
$('div#messageContainer').load(thisHref, function() {
$(this).fadeTo(200, 1);
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $("#messageContainer").offset().top
}, 200);
});
return false;
});
});
</script>
<?php $this->end();?>
With the RequestHandler this works out of the box with the same template file(s).