Question

What I’m trying to do is to use ajax to get time from another php file.

So the javascript code looks like this:

var timeNow = setInterval(
    $.ajax({
        url: "process/time.php",
        success: function(msg) {
            $('#time').text(msg);
        }
    }), 1000);

And here’s php code it is posted to.

<?php echo gmdate('h:i:s A', time() + 8 * 3600);?>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

setInterval can be called with a Function object as well as a string of code to execute. $.ajax returns a jqXHR object, which is casted to the string "[object Object]". This string is then executed as code, and raises the error.

You want to wrap the $.ajax call in a function:

var timeNow = setInterval(function() {
    $.ajax({
        url:"process/time.php",
        success: function(msg) {$('#time').text(msg);}
    });
}, 1000);