Question

I have set up post xmlhttprequest and it work working great. I however would like to set up the responseText to receive multiple variable in an array, comma delimited or whatever.

This is how I am currently scooping up my return php echo command.

var return_data = hrequest.responseText;

Maybe something like this?

var update = new Array();

if(response.indexOf('|$|' != -1)) {
  update = response.split('|$|');

  alert(update[0]);
  document.getElementById("button1").value=update[1];
  document.getElementById("button2").value=update[2];
}

Answer 1

Would be easier to send data as JSON from php.

Send JSON from php:

echo json_encode( $array);

Parse to array from responseText:

var return_data_array = JSON.parse(hrequest.responseText);