Question

I have been looking at this problem for quite a while now and cannot seem to figure out why I keep receiving null after my $.ajax function is called.I input an associative array that contains my method name and then call my method in PHP to return a j son string back to the front end. I receive null when I call alert in my java script. Here is my code

Java script:

   $(document).ready(function()
   {
     var data = {};
     data["Method"] = "test";
     $.ajax({

            url:"test.php/test",
            data: data,
            type:"POST",
            contentType:"application/json",
            dataType:"json",
            success: function(data){

            alert(data);

            },
            error:function(data, textStatus, error)
            {

            }
     });
});

PHP:

   <?

    //require_once("database.php");

    class methods
    {
      function __contructor()
      {
        if(isset($_POST["Method"]))
        {
              $function = $_POST["Method"];
              call_user_func($function);
        }
        else
        {
              echo "{\"status\":\"false\"}";
        }
     }

      function test()
      {
            $json = array( 
            "kyle" => "broflowksi",
            "eric" => "cartman",
            "stan" => "marsh"
             );
            echo json_encode($json);
      }

   }

     $method = new methods();

   ?>

Answer 1

There’s simply a typo in your class constructor method, it should be

function __construct()

One other thing to keep in mind is that I’m not sure you should be setting the contentType to json, as that variable is for what you’re sending… not what you’re receiving.
So if you end up having a situation where the post variables are being stripped, try and remove the contentType form your ajax call.