Question

Let’s say I’m sending this simple ajax request (jquery):

$.ajax({
   type: 'POST',
   url: '/ajax/requestForm.php',
   data: {'action':'request', 'language':'sk'},
   complete: function(data){
      alert(data);
   }
});

In my requestForm.php, I have:

<?php echo 'Hello answer!'; ?>

What alert() shows me in the browser:

[object Object]

What I want it to show:

Hello answer!

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Change complete: to success: and that should give you the desired result.

Complete is a function to be called when the request finishes (after success and error callbacks are executed). The function gets passed two arguments: The jqXHR (in jQuery 1.4.x, XMLHTTPRequest) object and a string categorizing the status of the request (“success”, “notmodified”, “error”, “timeout”, “abort”, or “parsererror”). That is why you are getting an object returned.