Question

I Have two problem in this Case :
I want to pass a JSON object that i created in Zend Controller

public function exampleAction() {
    $answers = array();
    for($i = 0 ; $i < 3 ; $i++)
     {
                $answer = new Answer();
                $answer->answer_id = 5 ; // for example
                $answer->thanked = 'true';// for example
                $answers[] = $answer;
     }

    echo Zend_Json_Encoder::encode($answers);
}

the Jquery Post function is :

 $.post(
      "/memberactions/getthanks/",
      {values:values},
        function(res){   
           alert(123);     
        } 
      , 'json')

First Question :
why the return response is HTML ? the response must be in JSON ?

Second Question
the HTML response is like this

[{"__className":"Answer","thanked":"true","answer_id":"5"}]

How can I make the response like this :

 - answer 
     thanked : true
     answer_id : 5

as a JSON Object without the __className:”Answer” (does it hurt to have the class name in the response) ?

Answer 1

1. Have you disabled layout, viewRenderer etc.? Also, you should send appropriate headers. You can do all this at once using the JSON action helper:

   $this->_helper->json($answers);

2. You could provide a toArray() method in Answer, which would return an array of relevant properties and then use it in your action:

   $answers[] = $answer->toArray();