Correct way to read 'echo json_encode( )' from JQuery

Question

I am using: echo json_encode($Response); to send an Associative array back to JQuery Ajax. Whenever I try to read each ID key value I get an undefined value. Please help me

Answer 1

You should set the mime type aswell, wich, according to this question is application/json. Then jQuery will understand the answer is a json element. To do it, you'd do the following:

header('Content-Type: application/json');

In your UpdateEditAStudent.php before printing anything.

Answer 2

do something like this

$Stuff = 'Hello world';

$Success = true;
$Content = $Stuff;

$Response = array('Success' => $Success, 'Content' => $Content);
echo json_encode($Response);

Answer 3

You need to define the correct dataType or provide the correct header, as Lumbendil described.

You can manually define the dataType to json, so your code would look like:

$.ajax({  
   type: "GET",  
    url: "../pgs/UpdateEditAStudent.php", 
   data: "FirstName="+ sFirstName ,  
   dataType: "json",
   ...etc

Answer 4

You don't have to add a header to the PHP file, just use this Jquery parseJSON function:

Keep this PHP code as it is:

$Stuff = 'Hello world';

$Success = true;
$Content = $Stuff;

$Response = array('Success' => $Success, 'Content' => $Content);
echo json_encode($Response);

And for the JS:

$.ajax({  
    type: "GET",
    url: "../pgs/UpdateEditAStudent.php",
    data: "FirstName="+ $('#student_first_name').val(),

    success: function(data){
        // Here is the tip
        var data = $.parseJSON(data);

        alert(data.Content);
    }
});

Answer 5

It's an array. You should probably do alert(data['Content']);.