Question

It’s been a long time since I’ve done any jQuery/js stuff, and silly $.get() is giving me problems. I’m in a purely testing stage, and just want to use $.get to return a json-encoded string.

This is what I would like to use:

<script>
  function send_address(){
    $.get("tester3.php", function(data){
    alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
    });
  }
</script>

However, the only way I can get a response is by using this (which executes out of order, but I understand that is a result of an asynchronous call, and isn’t the issue):

<script>
  function send_address(){
    $.get("tester3.php", function(data){
      alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
      });
    alert('here');
  }
</script>

I just want to send a get request to “tester3.php” and see the returned string without having to put in the alert.

Thanks, and happy holidays!

UPDATED:
Here’s the html that calls the function:

<form id="maps_check" class="niceform">
  <fieldset>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" onclick="send_address()"/>
  </fieldset>
</form>

Answer 1

If you are calling the send_address on a click or submit event I think you should try to return false.

function send_address(){
   $.get("tester3.php", function(data){
      alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
   });
   return false;
}

You could also cancel the default action by using preventDefault() like this:

function send_address(e) {
   // cancel the action when clicking on a link
   e.preventDefault();
}