i’m a little bit confused here. i’ve PHP file that retrieve database records . i’ll call it with an Ajax call from my frontend . do i need to convert the records to JSON ? if no when do i need to do that
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i’m a little bit confused here. i’ve PHP file that retrieve database records . i’ll call it with an Ajax call from my frontend . do i need to convert the records to JSON ? if no when do i need to do that
You don’t “need” to return the results as JSON. But I would recommend it. JSON is very portable, so it will be easier for other applications to interact with your application. It’s also much easier to parse JSON than it is records separated by simple delimiters.
For example, you can use Crockford’s JSON parser: http://www.json.org/js.html
As for JSON vs XML: Why need to use JSON in php and AJAX