Load jQuery dialog from Controller/View?

I'm using jQuery dialog to load a view, which is used to upload files to my application. Upon browsing to the file and clicking submit, a controller is called, which processes the file and passes it to my model for insertion. The model then returns back to the controller, success (or not) and loads a new view for success (or not).

I would like to have the success (or not) view render inside the same jQuery dialog (or open a new one) instead of calling/loading an entire view.

Would I call/load (somehow) the jQuery dialog from within my controller? Or would I have my controller call the new view, and once it loads, have it render the dialog, basically rendering itself in the dialog? Hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

**EDITED: ADDED CODE BELOW + COMMENTS - Thanks! **

My intial view contains the following jQuery function, which is called when a user clicks on an anchor ("upload file"):

$(document).ready(function(){
 function uploadImage(event) {
          id = $(this).data('id'); //id is an URL such as ('upload_form'/do_upload/5) it calls my controller (uploadimage), and passes a value (5) to a function (doupload)

          $("#dialog").load(id).dialog(); //loads the URL    
         return false;
    }

$('.imageBtn').live('click',uploadImage);     
});

The function called by the controller:

function do_upload()
    {
        $config['upload_path'] = './uploads/';
        $config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|png';
        $config['max_size'] = '0';
        $config['max_width']  = '212';
        $config['max_height']  = '118';

        $this->load->library('upload', $config);    
        if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload())
        {
            $data['id'] = $this->input->post( 'iEventID', true );    
                        $data['error'] = $this->upload->display_errors();
            $this->load->view('adm开发者_运维百科in/upload_form', $data); // If an error is found during file/img upload, then the code reloads the view that was previously loaded into my dialogue. This is where I need the same view to reload in the dialog and present the error message. This currently loads the view in its entirety in a browser window.
        }
        else
        {
            $upload_data = $this->upload->data(); 
            $filename = $upload_data['file_name'];    
            $this->event_model->addEventImage($filename);
            $this->load->view('admin/upload_success');  // If all is well, instead of loading the view in its entirety, I want to load the success into the dialog previously popped.
        }
    }

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var $dialog; function showDialog(html, status,request) { $dialog.dialog('open'); $dialog.html(html); return false; }

$(document).ready(function() { $dialog = $('').dialog({ autoOpen: false, modal : true, title : 'Export Dialog', buttons: { 'Ok': function() { jQuery().download( '<%=submitURL%>', $data, function(){ jQuery('#wait').hide(); $dialog.dialog('close'); }, 'post'); }, 'Cancel': function() { jQuery(this).dialog('close'); } } });

$('#popup').click(function() { jQuery.ajax( { url : '<%=submitURL%>', dataType : 'String', success : showDialog, data : 'data', type : 'post' }); });

couldnt format!!!

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not sure exactly what your asking but but maybe you could have your controller load the view in an iFrame, and then put the iFrame in your dialog?

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use ajax to submit and receive text back in success : callback() method to render data inside the dialog