Question

Sounds like a weird question, but say I have something like this:

$.post( '/myajax.php',         { 'param1': value1, 'param2': value2 },         function( data, status ) {             if( status == 'success' ) {                $('#someid').html( data );             }         }, 'html' ); 

While myajax.php is doing whatever it needs to do, it decides that it does not need to make any changes to #someid. If it just returns, the someid element is blanked, but I want to leave it alone. How can the php query return in such a way that status != 'success'?

Answer 1

Wouldn’t it be simpler to check on the data returned?

$.post( '/myajax.php', {          'param1': value1,          'param2': value2     }, function( data, status ) {        if( data != '' ) {            $('#someid').html( data );        }    },     'html'  );