I have worked with JSON data, Jquery's getJSON method to use PHP's server side scripts to get data. Now I am trying to work with JSON data being returned by a PHP function and a Javascript event or url would get that data. For a Javascript function to access PHP data, it has to have a callback, and I am not able to figure out, how I should create a callback.
Existing code that I have in the PHP file (getData.php) can echo/return JSON output and would give data that would look like this
{"count":3,"items":[{"myTab_ID":"1","myTab_xam":"test1","myTab_rank":"21"},
{"myTab_ID":"2","myTab_xam":"test2","myTab_rank":"22"},
{"myTab_ID":"3","myTab_xam":"test3","myTab_rank":"22"}]}
Now I have my javascript file which would be making the call, which would be a little twitter like,
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://myserver/getdata.php">
</script>
</head>
</html>
Now when I run this html file, I get an error saying
"Error: invalid label Source File: http://myserver/getData.php Line: 1, Column: 1 Source Code: {"count":3,"items":[{"myTab_ID":"1","myTab_xam":"test1","myTab_rank":"21"},{"myTab_ID":"2","myTab_xam":"test2","myTab_rank":"22"},{"myTab_ID":"3","myTab_xam":"test3","myTab_rank":"22"}]}"
in the error console.
I am a little happy that I atleast am able to get the data from my php side to the html file, but now I am wonder how would I use that returned JSON data. How would I develop the callback function that returns the JSON data back??
> ------code in getData.php---------------
>
> $con =
> mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
> if (!$con) { die('Could not
> connect: ' . mysql_error()); }
>
> mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
>
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM
> Persons");
>
> while($row =
> mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
> $data[] = $row; }
>
> echo json_encode($data);
>
> --------------end - getdata.php--------------
>
> ---------code in getJson.html------------- html> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="http://myserver/getdata.php">
> </script> </head>
>
> </html>
> -----------------------end- getJson.html----------
I am not sure how a callback would work to get the data?
Don't forget your header in getData.php:
Some useful examples in the php manual
You're getting that error because that JSON construction is simply erroneous to the JavaScript parser. After a naked open curly brace (
{
), Javascript expects a statement.What your code seems to expect is that the JSON not be included simply as a
<script>
into a page, but instead that it be fetched actively by an XMLHttpRequest (i.e., "ajax"). That's really common, and it's quite different from what a<script>
tag gives you. In such situations, the JSON construction is explicitly parsed by client-side code and used for, well, whatever is desired.if you want the json encoded $data array to be avaliable in javascript you can do this:
in your HTML file..
hope this helps.