Ajax response Object

Question

I perform an Ajax call and when done, I call

.done(function (response) {
 $('#results').append(response);
});

The output from this is something like

array(5) { [0]=> string(24) "[email protected]" [1]=> string(8) "Approved" [2]=> string(1) "F" [3]=> string(8) "Rejected" [4]=> string(6) "ABC123" }

That would suggest that I could then do something like the following

.done(function (response) {
 $('#results').append(response[0]);
});

If I do this though, my output is the single character 'a'. I have tried .html, .text etc all with the same result.

Is there any reason this may be happening?

• Felix Kling: response is still a string. It seems you used print_r($foo) to output the array. There is no easy way to parse this in JS. You should return JSON instead.

Answer 1

The reason is PHP file has:

var_dump($whatever);

Change it to:

json_encode($whatever);

• emerson.marini: PHP? Where did you see this in the OP's question?
• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: @MelanciaUK PHP's var_dump only returns output like this!
• emerson.marini: I see... So it's something implied.
• Felix Kling: @MelanciaUK: The response gives it away.
• emerson.marini: Too many years with just ASP.NET. Can't remember a thing of PHP.