Question

I’m getting a weird result from a jQuery ajax request sending form details to a PHP script. The same scripts are used elsewhere problem free. Basically the form is submitted using jQuery.ajax like this:

//if submit button is clicked
$('#form1').submit(function () {    

    //Get the data from all the fields
    var name = $('input[name=name]');
    var email = $('input[name=email]');
    var con_email = $('input[name=con_email]');
    var comments = $('textarea[name=comments]');

    //organize the data properly
    var data = 'name=' + name.val() + '&email=' + email.val() + '&con_email=' + con_email.val() + '&comments='  + encodeURIComponent(comments.val());


    //show the loading sign
    $('.loading').show();

    //start the ajax
    $.ajax({
        //this is the php file that processes the data and send mail
        url: "process-email/process.php",   

        //GET method is used
        type: "GET",

        //pass the data         
        data: data,     

        //Do not cache the page
        cache: false,

        //success
        success: function () {              
            //if process.php returned 1/true (send mail success)
            if (html==1) {                  
                //hide the form
                $('.form').fadeOut('slow');                 

                $('.done').delay(1000).fadeIn('slow');

            }               
        }       
    });



    //cancel the submit button default behaviours
    return false;
});

The PHP script works fine, the email is sent and 1 is returned (email sent) but the script stops at: if(html==1). I get this error

html is not defined

As said above exactly the same script works fine somewhere else, but here I get that error and the script is stopped. Can someone please help to understand where there might be the problem?

Answer 1

You have to add the parameter reference:

success: function (html) {
    //if process.php returned 1/true (send mail success)
    //.....
}

Then you can use this parameter, which will be the response from server.