Question

I have a jQuery ajax call with the following code:

var dataString = 'title=' + title;
alert ('datastring: ' + dataString); // This reports the correct value

$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'script.php',
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(newTableID) {
    alert ('newTableID: ' + newTableID);
    // Do some stuff with the ID
},
error: function(response) {
    alert('failed: ' + response); 
            // The above displays "failed: [object Object]"
}
});

It doesn’t matter what I have in my php script, I still get the same result: The alert in the error part of the ajax call displays a message box showing “failed: [object Object]”. I’ve even tried a simple echo in the php script – I don’t think the php script is running at all from this ajax call.

The url for the script is correct – the js file and the script.php file are in the same folder.

Can anyone shed some light on what I may be missing here?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you receive a failed, it’s because your script.php is not available.
You can try to use console.log(response) instead of alert() and you should see what is into your variable with Firefox or Chrome debugging tools.