Question

I’m getting a error message that says missing ) after argument list and not sure why.

function getInboxUnreadMessagesCount(displayElementID)
{
$.get(<?php echo base_url(); ?>'dashboard/getInboxUnreadMessagesCount', function(data)
{
    $messageCountJSON = data; 
    if(displayElementID != null && displayElementID != undefined && displayElementID != '')
{
    //$('#'+displayElementID).html($messageCountJSON);
    if(parseInt($('#'+displayElementID).text()) < parseInt($messageCountJSON))
    {
        $.jGrowl("You have received a new private message!", {theme : 'information'});
        $('#'+displayElementID).html($messageCountJSON).css({"display":"block"});
    }
    if(parseInt($messageCountJSON) == 0)
    {
        $('#'+displayElementID).html($messageCountJSON).css({"display":"none"});
    }
}
}, 'json');
}

Any thoughts on why this is?

Answer 1

What does <?php echo base_url(); ?> output, exactly? I presume just a bare string, so you’ll end up with code like:

$.get(http://somepath.com'dashboard/getInboxUnreadMessagesCount', function(){...});

Clearly that won’t work. You probably want:

$.get('<?php echo base_url(); ?>/dashboard/getInboxUnreadMessagesCount', function(){...});

This way the base url will end up actually inside the path to $.get.