loop through json array jquery

Question

I\'m trying to loop through this to get the \'name\' values. This is what I currently have, but it doesn\'t seem to be working, tried a few others from what was posted here

Answer 1

You have to parse the string as JSON (data[0] == "[" is an indication that data is actually a string, not an object):

data = $.parseJSON(data);
$.each(data, function(i, item) {
    alert(item);
});

Answer 2

I dont think youre returning json object from server. just a string.

you need the dataType of the return object to be json

Answer 3

you could also change from the .get() method to the .getJSON() method, jQuery will then parse the string returned as data to a javascript object and/or array that you can then reference like any other javascript object/array.

using your code above, if you changed .get to .getJSON, you should get an alert of [object Object] for each element in the array. If you changed the alert to alert(item.name) you will get the names.