best practice to use action url while calling ajax in cakePHP

Question

I am using ajax with jQuery in my cakePHP application.
and my javascript function is placed inside a javascript file.

now in my local system the files are kept

Answer 1

What to do is in your master template for your cake app create a global javascript variable that can be used throughout your application. Make sure it exists befor you do any JS includes too.

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