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Jquery Ajax not sending data to php server

This will be an easy one for you, but after ages of looking online I can't find a solution, or at least one I'm understanding.
result and users variables both alert correctly.
The data contents shows empty - why?
How should I be inserting these two variables into data ?
(also if it is right - how do I view the data content without going into server side)
Thank you in advance.
var result = result.text;
var users = localStorage.getItem('user');
alert("1");
$.ajax({
url:'********',
method: 'POST',
data: {user: users, serial: result},
dataType: "text",
contentType: "application/json",
success: function(data){
alert (data);
alert(users);
alert(result);

In your code alert(data) will refer to the data returned by the server. Not the data of your ajax request.
$.ajax() takes a settings object as its parameter. It's a set of key/value pairs that configure the Ajax request. data is just one of the keys of the object you are passing to the $.ajax() method.
To simplify your code, this is what is happening:
// this is what you're sending to the server
var dataSentToTheServer = {
user: users,
serial: result
}
// creating an object where data, url, success etc are keys.
var settings = {
url:'api/method',
method: 'POST',
data: dataSentToTheServer,
dataType: "text",
success: function (dataSentFromTheServer) {
alert(dataSentFromTheServer); // this argument will have the data returned by your server
alert(dataSentToTheServer); // data which was sent *to* the server
alert(data); // doesn't exist
}
....
}
$.ajax(settings);

Return json from php to ajax

I'm trying to get back a json object from php to then use in my ajax.
My ajax is
$( document ).ready(function() {
var eventsListPath = "/php/eventsList.php";
$.ajax({
type: 'get',
url: eventsListPath,
data: {},
success: function(data) {
var json = JSON.parse(data);
$('#eventInformation').html(json[table]);
}
});
});
and then my php does stuff but I basically want to return a string (plus more, but getting the string to work first would probably help the rest):
$obj->table="hey";
echo json_encode($obj, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);
But the line
$('#eventInformation').html(json[table]);
seems to only give me back an error:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
What am I doing wrong?

first, use the Network Monitor to see the result of the HTTP request
e.g. in Firefox : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-GB/docs/Tools/Network_Monitor
then, try this code who let jQuery do the JSON parsing in the AJAX call :
$(document).ready(function () {
var eventsListPath = "/php/eventsList.php";
$.ajax({
type: 'get',
url: eventsListPath,
data: {},
result: "json"
success: function (dataJson) {
$('#eventInformation').html(json.table);
}
});
});

Try to use . operator, also there is no need to parse the JSON string it is already in JSON form :)
$(document).ready(function () {
var eventsListPath = "/php/eventsList.php";
$.ajax({
type: 'get',
url: eventsListPath,
data: {},
success: function (data) {
$('#eventInformation').html(data.table);
}
});
});
ON PHP, ensure that you are instantiating the response data like below
$obj = new StdClass;
$obj->table="hey";

First of all you should check the response is properly parsed as json. if any data is present before the json array, javascript will throw exceptions. Use the chrome's developer tools response tab in the network option for seeing the response. If it's ok , try the below code.
$(document).ready(function () {
var eventsListPath = "/php/eventsList.php";
$.ajax({
method: "get",
url: eventsListPath,
dataType : "json",
data: {}, //data
success: function (data) {
$('#eventInformation').html(data.table);
}
});
});

jquery not properly serializing json in ajax call

Let me start by saying I am not extremely familiar with Javascript and I cannot figure out what is going on here.
I have the following function:
self.search = function () {
var searchTerms = {
"City": this.cityName,
"State": this.stateName,
"StoreNumber": this.storeNumber,
};
$.ajax("/api/SearchApi", {
data: searchTerms,
type: "POST", contentType: "application/json",
success: function (result) {
alert(result);
}
}
});
When I submit, what happens is that instead of submitting a nice JSON object as expected, it submits a JSON objected formatted as so: "City=testing&State=AL&StoreNumber=test "
Ideally I would like to use a GET method that passes the object to my server so that I can return the results, but when I use a get method, it simply appends the above to the API call url resulting in a URL request formed as so: http://localhost:57175/api/SearchApi?City=testing&State=AL&StoreNumber=test
Any help would be appreciated.

Make sure you add the dataType of JSON to your $.ajax({ }); object. That should solve the problem!
$.ajax({
// ...
data : JSON.stringify( searchTerms ), // Encode it properly like so
dataType : "json",
// ...
});

2 Things
Add the json content type(not the data type) to your ajax object important to note is the charset your server is using in this case utf-8.
Use the Json2 Library to stringify and parse Json when sending and retrieving it can be found here : https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json2.js
$.ajax({
url: URL,
type: "POST",
//Stringify the data you send to make shure its properly encoded
data: JSON.stringify(DATA),
//This is the type for the data that gets sent
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
//This is for the data you receive
dataType: "json"
}).done(function(data) {
var dataYouGet = JSON.parse(data);
}).fail(function(xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
}).always(function(data) {
});

jQuery. Assign JSON as a result to a variable

I use this helper function to receive JSON results for my requests:
function getData(url) {
$.get(url,
function(data) {
response = data;
return response;
}, 'application/json');
}
I give it some string as a part of url from my web application, like '/api/getusers', so it looks like getData('/api/getusers'). Now I need that string result containing JSON data that I receive from the url to be assigned to my variable, so it would look like this: var result = getData('/api/getusers'). Then I will process this JSON data. The problem is with the returning the response variable. It's undefined. Thanks!

try this
function getData(url) {
var data;
$.ajax({
async: false, //thats the trick
url: 'http://www.example.com',
dataType: 'json',
success: function(response){
data = response;
}
});
return data;
}

It's an asynchronous operation, meaning that function(data) { ... } runs later when the response from the server is available, long after you returned from getData(). Instead, kick off whatever you need from that function, for example:
function getData(url, callback) {
$.get(url, callback, 'application/json');
}
Then when you're calling it, pass in a function or reference to a function that uses the response, like this:
getData("myPage.php", function(data) {
alert("The data returned was: " + data);
});

Use $.ajax
$.ajax({
url: 'http://www.example.com',
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data){
alert(data.Id);
}
});

Can't query JSON using jQuery

I'm using jQuery to grab some JSON data. I've stored it in a variable called "ajaxResponse". I cant pull data points out of it; I'm getting ajaxResponse.blah is not defined. typeof is a string. Thought it should be an object.
var getData = function (url) {
var ajaxResponse = "";
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: "post",
async: false,
success: function (data) {
ajaxResponse = data;
}
});
return ajaxResponse;
},
...
typeof ajaxResponse; // string
ajaxResponse.blah[0].name // ajaxResponse.blah is not defined

make sure you specify option dataType = json
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: "post",
dataType: "json",
async: false,
success: function (data) {
ajaxResponse = data;
}
});

Q8-coder has the right of it, but to give you some details: your server is really passing back a string that you've formatted into JSON. You'll need to tell jQuery what to expect, otherwise it just assumes it received a string.
Add the following to your $.ajax options:
dataType: "json"
Also, refer to the jQuery API for examples and documentation for these options.