Question

I want to have a jQuery script that recieves the return of an php script that made a database request with $.post("script.php", args) the request is started, but how to handle any answer?

Answer 1

You should really read these tutorials before jumping into something

• http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/

Answer to your question

jQuery post takes parameters like below

jQuery.post( url [, data] [, success(data, textStatus, jqXHR)] [,
dataType] )

A typical jquery post request with certain parameters, expecting the results from a php file(test.php in this case) in XML format would be like the below

$.post("test.php",
 { name: "John", time: "2pm" },
 function(data) {
   process(data);
 }, 
 "xml"
);

Hope this helps.