Question

Hi does anyone know how to stop json data from outputting in the browser before the page loads in? The data being echoed in included php script with

echo json_encode($row);

But ‘echo’ is what gives me access to the data in my $.ajax functions.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

From what you are saying in your question and your comment on an earlier answer, you have a voting.php script which includes another script, say data.php. The latter does echo json_encode($row), which causes unwanted data in the output from voting.php. You want voting.php to load the data from data.php using the jQuery $.ajax function.

1. Don’t include data.php in voting.php.
2. Make the necessary $.ajax calls after the page produced by voting.php has loaded, i.e. when the DOM is ready, using the jQuery ready event.

The ready event:

$(document).ready(function() {
  // $.ajax call which loads data from data.php
});