Simple infinite scrol with jQuery and a Symfony2 backend

infinite-scroll.js

is_processing = false;
last_page = false;
function addMoreElements() {
    is_processing = true;
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        //FOS Routing
        url: Routing.generate('route_name', {page: page}),
        success: function(data) {
            if (data.html.length > 0) {
                $('.selector').append(data.html);
                page = page + 1;
                //The server can answer saying it's the last page so that the browser doesn't make anymore calls
                last_page = data.last_page;
            } else {
                last_page = true;
            }
            is_processing = false;
        },
        error: function(data) {
            is_processing = false;
        }
    });
}

$(window).scroll(function() {
    var wintop = $(window).scrollTop(), docheight = $(document).height(), winheight = $(window).height();
    //Modify this parameter to establish how far down do you want to make the ajax call
    var scrolltrigger = 0.80;
    if ((wintop / (docheight - winheight)) > scrolltrigger) {
    //I added the is_processing variable to keep the ajax asynchronous but avoiding making the same call multiple times
        if (last_page === false && is_processing === false) {
            addMoreElements();
        }
    }
});

nice tips thanks ! You just have to call $this->renderView in your controller (if you use Twig) and then send a json response thanks to the JsonResponse class

still very helpful in 2018, thanks ;)