Question

I’m using this function on a jquery script:

    function recogerEventos(id) {
    var respuesta = $.ajax( {
        type: 'GET',
        url: 'eventos.php',
        data: 'cmd=recoge&id='+id,
        success: function(data) {
        //alert(data);

            return data;
        },
        error : function () {
            return false;
        }
    }).responseText;
    //alert("asdfksjfhajk"+respuesta);
    return respuesta;
}

If I uncomment the alert(data) it shows the return string value, but when I uncomment the alert(“asdffksd…”) it shows only the random letters and no more, I need to send this ‘respuesta’ value to get string in other document.

If someone know how to get it, please, explain me, i’m desperate

Thanks to all, Carlos

Answer 1

An alternative is to set the async option to false, which allows you to return the data directly from the call to ajax. eg.

var respuesta = $.ajax({
    url:   'eventos.php',
    async: false,
    ...
}).responseText;

The downside to this approach is that it will block the browser whilst it waits for the request to complete.