Refresh a portlet

Yii 1.1 Tips, Snippets and Tutorials
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$("#contentid").load("index.php?r=ControllerID/ActionID",

        function (response, status, xhr){

                if (status == "error") {

                        var msg = "Sorry but there was an error: ";

                        alert(msg + xhr.status + " " + xhr.statusText);

                }

}