Question

I am trying to handle an array coming back from an ajax call. My current situation is a button gets clicked, and when clicked, it fires an ajax call. Here is a snippet of the PHP after ajax has been called..

function count_total() {
    $count = get_count();
    if ($count == 0) {
        $count = 1; 
    }
    $total = get_total();
    $response = array('count' => $count, 'total' => $total);
    echo $response;
    exit;
}

Ok so now this $response variable is passed back to the JS side and if I alert the variable obviously it will say “Array”. So my question is, how can I work with this array? I am trying to get the key/value out?

Or I can’t pass an array to it like that?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

change your echo to be this.

echo json_encode($response);

and then instead of alerting the response, parse it with a json parser library like this.

Then you will have a true javascript object not an array because you’re using a associative array.