Question

I have the following script in my javascript…

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: 'http://www.example.com/ajax',
    data: {email: val},
    success: function(response) {   
             alert(response);
    }
});

And my php file looks like this…

    if ($_REQUEST['email']) {

$q = $dbc -> prepare("SELECT email FROM accounts WHERE email = ?");
$q -> execute(array($_REQUEST['email']));
if (!$q -> rowCount()) {

    echo json_encode(error = false);
}
else {

    echo json_encode(error = true);
}

    }

I cannot get either the variable error of true or false out of the ajax call?

Does it matter how I put the data into the ajax call?

At the minute it is as above, where email is the name of the request, and val is a javascript variable of user input in a form.

Answer 1

Try this instead. Your current code should give you a syntax error.

if (!$q -> rowCount()) {

    echo json_encode(array('error' => false));
}
else {

    echo json_encode(array( 'error' => true ))
}