Question

I’m trying to make a function that uses jquery’s ajaxfunction to get some info from my ajax.php file.

code:

function ajaxIt(dataLine){
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "ajax.php",
        data: "ajax=true&"+dataLine,
        success: function(msg){
            console.log("[AjaxIt]: "+dataLine+" returned "+msg);
            return msg;
        }
    });
 }
 if(ajaxIt("action=loggedIn")=="1"){
       console.log("Logged In");
       loggedIn=true;
       initiate2();
 }

The problem is that I can’t get the success function to return all the way to the ajaxIt function. Could anyone shed some light onto how I could do something like that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to invoke a callback function to process data that way:

function ajaxIt(dataLine, cb){
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "ajax.php",
        data: "ajax=true&"+dataLine,
        success: function(msg){                
            if($.isFunction(cb))
               cb.apply(null, [msg]);
        }
    });
}

ajaxIt("action=loggedIn", function(data){
      if(data === "1"){
         console.log("Logged In");
         loggedIn=true;
         initiate2();
      }
});