Question

well I havn’t really ever using jquery to grab data from a server.. and well my jquery skills are pretty limited anyway so maybe im doing the jquery wrong …im not sure

heres my controller to handle the json requests

class Controller_Json extends Controller_Template{

public function get_chat_entries(){
    echo json_encode($this->db->get('chat_entries')->result());
}}

and heres my view that is meant to test it

<ul id="chats">

</ul>
<script>
   $.getJSON('ajax/test.json', function(data) {
     $('#chats').html('<li>' + data.text + '</li>');
   });
</script>

Answer 1

I tried your code in my test base kohana. your js code is ok.
problem is mysql_resoure to json conversion.
i.e. "echo json_encode($this->db->get('chat_entries')->result());"
result method returns mysql_resoure which needs to be converted into array.

it works when if i put like this
…

echo json_encode($this->db->get('emails')->current());

…
only one email is displayed inside of #chats ul list.

PS: emails is my table contains multiple email address