jquery ajax sucess - possible to return JSON instead of string?

Question

To return an error from a $.ajax call, there's gotta be a better way than echoing an error in the ajax.php file and then trimming it!

this seems very clumsy and in-robust:

success: function(e){ 
    var e = trim(e);
    if(e == 'SUCCESS')
        {alert('your password has been changed!');}   
    if(e == 'ERROR1')
        {alert('please fill in all inputs!');}
    if(e == 'ERROR2')
        {alert('password incorrect!');}
    if(e == 'ERROR3')
        {alert('change failed!');} 
}

what should i be doing instead?!

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-17 16:37:12Z

2

return JSON:

{ success: false, errorMessage: 'please fill in all inputs!' }

and then:

success: function(e) {
    if(e.success) {
        alert('your password has been changed!');
    }
    else {
        alert(e.errorMessage);
    } 
}

answered May 17, 2010 at 16:37

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Haroldo Over a year ago

ah cool, so i can just echo out / json_encode insome script tags on the ajax.php file?

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