Question

I am returning json from server but it’s not available in my success callback in ajax.

$.ajax({
    url:'myData.php',
    type:'post',
    success:function(data){
        console.log(data.name); // This should print my name
    }
});

In php I am using this

$data=array('id' => 1, 'name' => 'john');
echo json_encode($data);

What am I missing ?

Answer 1

Either

1. Tell jQuery that you are expecting JSON data back. See dataType on http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

   or

2. Return a header so that jQuery can detect the response as being JSON:

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