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JSON Data cannot be stored in variable

Im trying to load the content of a JSON File into an variable.
Before, the variable looked something like this:
var Data = {
teams : [
["Team 1", "Team 2"],
["Team 3", "Team 4"]
],
results : [
[[1,2], [3,4]],
[[4,6], [2,1]]
]}
Now I have a JSON File looking something like this:
{"teams":[["Team 1","Team 2"],["Team 3","Team 4"],"results":[[[[1,2],[3,4]],[[4,6],[2,1]]]}
Now I want that the the content of the JSON File is stored in the Data Variable before. I tried it with Ajax which looks like this:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
dataType : 'json',
async: true,
url: 'data.json',
success: function(data) {
console.log(data)
var Data = data
},
});
Console.log works perfect, but the Data is not saved in the variable and I'm getting the error: Uncaught ReferenceError: Data is not defined.
I also tried it with var Data = JSON.parse(data), but this doesn't seem to work either.
And now I'm stuck without any clue.
Thanks for help in advance.

I'm not sure what your code looks like after the ajax call, but I'm guessing the the code where you are using Data is after the ajax call. ajax is asynchrounous. That means that your code doesn't wait for it to finish before moving on. Any code that needs to wait until after it's done fetching the data, you can put in the .success function. Also, it's worth noting that success only gets called when the ajax request is successful. If you want to handle errors, you can use .error Something like this should work:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
dataType : 'json',
async: true,
url: 'data.json',
success: function(data) {
console.log(data)
var Data = data;
// Anything that needs to use Data would go inside here
},
error: function(err) {
// handle errors
console.error(err);
}
});
// Any code here will not wait until `Data` is defined
// console.log(Data) // error

Ajax and PHP, post request not working

So I am trying to post some some data from one PHP file to another PHP file using jquery/ajax. The following code shows a function which takes takes data from a specific div that is clicked on, and I attempt to make an ajax post request to the PHP file I want to send to.
$(function (){
$(".commit").on('click',function(){
const sha_id = $(this).data("sha");
const sha_obj = JSON.stringify({"sha": sha_id});
$.ajax({
url:'commitInfo.php',
type:'POST',
data: sha_obj,
dataType: 'application/json',
success:function(response){
console.log(response);
window.location.replace("commitInfo");
},
error: function (resp, xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
console.log(resp);
}
});
});
});
Then on inside the other php file 'commitInfo.php' I attempt to grab/print the data using the following code:
$sha_data = $_POST['sha'];
echo $sha_data;
print_r($_POST);
However, nothing works. I do not get a printout, and the $_POST array is empty. Could it be because I am changing the page view to the commitInfo.php page on click and it is going to the page before the data is being posted? (some weird aync issue?). Or something else? I have tried multiple variations of everything yet nothing truly works. I have tried using 'method' instead of 'type', I have tried sending dataType 'text' instead of 'json'. I really don't know what the issue is.
Also I am running my apache server on my local mac with 'sudo apachectl start' and running it in the browser as 'http://localhost/kanopy/kanopy.php' && 'http://localhost/kanopy/commitInfo.php'.
Also, when I send it as dataType 'text' the success function runs, but I recieve NO data. When I send it as dataType 'json' it errors. Have no idea why.
If anyone can help, it would be greaat!

You don't need to JSON.stringify, you need to pass data as a JSON object:
$(function() {
$(".commit").on('click', function() {
const sha_id = $(this).data("sha");
const sha_obj = {
"sha": sha_id
};
$.ajax({
url: 'commitInfo.php',
type: 'POST',
data: sha_obj,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(response) {
console.log(response);
},
error: function(resp, xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
console.log(resp);
}
});
});
});
And on commitInfo.php, you have to echo string on json format
=====================================
If you want to redirect to commitInfo.php you can just:
$(".commit").on('click',function(){
const sha_id = $(this).data("sha");
window.location.replace("commitInfo.php?sha=" + sha_id );
});

Parse a json reply from a jquery result in php

I have a simple search form which query an external server for result with jquery
$("#formsearch").on("submit", function (event) {
// everything looks good!
event.preventDefault();
submitFormSearch();
});
function submitFormSearch(){
// Initiate Variables With Form Content
var searchinput = $("#searchinput").val();
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "https://external-server/api/",
headers: {"Authorization": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"},
data: "action=Search&query="+searchinput,
success:function(json){
console.log(json);
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url:'search_func.php',
data: "func=parse&json="+json,
success:function(data) {
console.log(data);
$('#risultato_ricerca').html(data);
}
});
}
});
}
The first GET ajax works properly and I get correct data but trying to send this json data to my php script in post I can't get data.
This is the code in search_func.php
if(isset($_POST['func']) && !empty($_POST['func'])){
switch($_POST['func']){
case 'parse':
parse($_POST['json']);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
function parse($json) {
$obj = json_decode($json,true);
var_dump($obj);
}
... it displays NULL
Where I'm wrong ?
EDIT:
SOLVED
changing:
data: "func=parse&json="+json,
to:
data: { func: 'parse', json: JSON.stringify(json) },
json code is correctly passed to search_func.php
Changed function parse in php file to:
function parse($json) {
$data = json_decode(stripslashes($json),true);
print_r($data);
}
Thank you.

Is the javascript json variable correctly filled (i.e. what does your console show you?) Possible you must encode the json variable to a string before posting.
i.e: instead of data: "func=parse&json="+json, use data: "func=parse&json="+JSON.stringify(json),

See this: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/
The correct syntax is: data: { func: 'parse', json: my_json_here }
If this doesn't works is probably that you have to encode the JSON to a string (see JSON.stringify())

Jquery Autocomplete Search with Ajax Request as sourcedata

What I want to do:
I want to do a input text field with a jquery autocomplete function which gets the source data from a cross-domain curl request. The result should be exactly like this example (CSS not important here): http://abload.de/img/jquerydblf5.png (So I actually want to show additional infos which I get from the curl Request). The URL to get the source data is http://www.futhead.com/15/players/search/quick/?term= and in the end I add those letters which are currently typed in at my input field (for example "Ronaldo").
At the moment I only tried to perform the searchrequest without showing all infosin the dropdown as shown in the screen above. I only want to see which playernames I actually got back by the curl request. Later I will try to add more information for the dropdown. Maybe you guys can help me as well with this as well (I think its called custom renderItem ??).
This is what I've tried:
<script>
$( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: 'playerscraper.php',
dataType: "json",
data: function () {
return $("#results").val()
},
success: function (data) {
// I have no idea what this response and map is good for
response($.map(data, function (item) {
return {
label: item.label,
id: item.value,
};
}));
},
});
}
});
</script>
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="tags">Tags: </label>
<input id="tags">
</div>
My playerscraper.php is performing the curl request and actually returns a array (tested with echo):
$term = $_GET['term'];
$curlRequest = new CurlRequest();
$result = $curlRequest->get('http://www.futhead.com/15/players/search/quick/?term=' . $searchterm);
$players = array();
return json_encode($result);
My problem:
I have no idea how to do the source part for the autocomplete function this way, that I get the right results from the ajax request with my searchterm from the input field. When I type in something in the input field, nothing happens (the function which defines the source is getting called - tested with an alert).
First try to fix the problem with your help (current Code):
<script>
$( "#tags" ).autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: 'playerscraper.php',
dataType: "json",
data: function () {
term: request.term
},
success: function (data) {
// I have no idea what this response and map is good for
response($.map(data, function(item) {
return {
label: item.full_name,
value: item.player_id
};
}));
},
});
},
minLength: 3,
delay: 500
});
</script>

The JSON is in a format which is incompatible with what autocomplete widget expects. This is where the $.map comes into play. You use this function to convert the JSON to desired format. Begin by returning a {label: "display name", value: "some id"} pairs like this:
response($.map(data, function(item) {
return {
label: item.full_name,
value: item.player_id
};
}));
Notes:
You should send content type header with your JSON:
header("Content-Type: application/json");
echo $result;
You should use request.term instead of input element value for the data parameter like this:
data: { term: request.term }
You should set higher delay and minLength values to reduce number of JSON requests:
delay: 500,
minLength: 3,
There are some undefined variables in your PHP script. Fix. Make sure that you echo the JSON instead of returning it. The remote server sends JSON so there is no need to json encode it again.
$term = $_GET['term'];
$result = file_get_contents('http://www.futhead.com/15/players/search/quick/?term=' . $term);
header("Content-Type: application/json");
echo $result;
Always check your PHP scripts for issues by opening directly in browser. Always look at browser JavaScript console to look for JavaScript errors and warnings.

Few things are looking wrong in in jQuery code
You have used $_GET['term'] in server side code but not passed term in ajax request query string
Need to fix as
data: {term: request.term}
extra comman(,) in code, it will create issue in IE browsers
response($.map(data, function (item) {
return {
label: item.label,
id: item.value
};
}));

jQuery json ajax function

I am having a kind of a weird problem, or maybe I do not understand how js and jQuery is working.
I have a small js that is sending an id and a value using AJAX. After a lot of experimentation I finally found a working solution which is:
$.post('dashboard/xhrDeleteListing', "id=" + id, function() {
alert(1);
});
However, I would like to use json format for the data part of the call. So what I did (to make sure that my JSON is correct) was the following:
var myJSON = {
id: id
};
$.post('dashboard/xhrDeleteListing', JSON.stringify(myJSON), function() {
alert(1);
}, 'json');
But this didn't work. First, php server didn't get anything (nothing in $_POST), second, the callback function didn't run (alert(1) was never executed). To my surprise, the following call did create a $_POST['id'] value:
$.post('dashboard/xhrDeleteListing', {'id': id}, function(z) {
alert(1);
}, 'json');
but again the callback function didn't run. It only run after removal of 'json' datatype argument).
The version of jQuery is v1.11.0.
Can anyone help me to figure out what am I doing wrong?
Regards,

The important point here is when you do this like:
$.post('dashboard/xhrDeleteListing', {'id': id}, function(z) {
alert(1);
}, 'json');
the 'json' paramter is the dataType of data expected from the server, not from you to send.
It means in your backend after doing your server side task you have to return a valid json string but it seems you want to do a server action without any return value, that's why you have to remove 'json' from your arguments.

var myJSON = {
"id": "id"
};
$.post('dashboard/xhrDeleteListing', JSON.stringify(myJSON), function() {
alert(1);
}, 'json');

Try this :
$.ajax({
url: 'dashboard/xhrDeleteListing',
type : 'POST',
dataType : 'json',
data: {
'id':id,
},
success : function(callback_record) {
alert(callback_record);
}
});