Question

    function getCChatStatus() {
    jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "index.php?page=CChatAction",
        data: { action: "getStatus" }
    }).done(function(msg) {
        var cChatStatus = jQuery.parseJSON(msg);
        return cChatStatus;
    });
}

function CChatOptions() {
    var test = getCChatStatus();
    alert(test);
}

is returning “test is undefined”.
How to solve this issue? I already tried async: false.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you use asynchronous functions like jQuery.ajax, you will have to use callback functions to evaluate the results.

Thus, your getter has to be asynchronous:

function getCChatStatus(callback){
  jQuery.ajax({/*...*/})
  .done(function(){
     callback(jQuery.parseJSON(msg))
  })
}

And your test will have to look like:

function CChatOptions() {
  getCChatStatus(function(status){
    alert(status)
  })
}