Question

I’m trying ajax for the first time but it doesn’t work.

This is “some.php” which handles the ajax call:

<?php
    echo "success";
?>

And this is the javascript that calls it:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

var msg;

$.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "some.php",
   data: ({ })
   success: function(msg){
     alert( msg );
   }
 });
</script>

Can you see where the problem is?

I should state I’m working under wordpress and both files reside in \wp-content\themes\twentyten (maybe the url in the ajax call is wrong?)

Answer 1

First of all remove the data:({}) which is pointless. you are also missing a , behind your data statement. this is most likely the issue.

if both the files is in the same directory, then the url should be correct.

However, i urge you to use a tool like FireBug in order to debug your problem further