Hi, Vik... You appear to have much more experience with AJAX than I do, but, so far, I've always put "returnFormat=json" at the end of my URL's, rather than just "return=json"...
Don't know if that makes any difference or not. Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Vik > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:47 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Can't Get Data Back from $.ajax() Call in IE7? > > > I've been testing this past few weeks in IE7, and I've got one > specific case where $.getJSON() seems to call the server > intermittently, and usually not at all. I use $.getJSON() a lot. In > FF and Safari it always works, and even in IE7 it usually seems to > work, but not in this case for some reason. I've tried setting cache > to false: > > $.ajaxSetup({ > cache: false > }); > > ...but that doesn't seem to have fixed it yet. > > So now I'm trying plain $.ajax() instead of $.getJSON: > > $.ajax({ > url: "/myFunction?type=json", > cache: false, > mode: "sync", > data: > { > theDataToCheck:theDataToCheck, > GramsOrML: GramsOrML, > UnitCount: UnitCount, > UnitsOfMeasurement: UnitsOfMeasurement, > > LetOtherPeopleUseThisInfo:LetOtherPeopleUseThisInfo, > ajax_call: 'true' > }, > dataType: "jsonp", > success: function(data) { > //handle data > //data comes back undefined in IE7 > } > }); > > > This always sends the call to the server, so I'm part of the way there > towards fixing this bug. However, although this $.ajax() call always > works in FireFox and Safari, in IE7, the data seems to come back > undefined. Here's the skeleton of the PHP code: > > $JasonCallBack = $_REQUEST['callback']; > > //put return data in $theData array > > $S = $this->json->encode($theData); > > $S = $JasonCallBack . '(' . $S . ');'; > > echo $S; > > What can I do to get the data variable to be decoded properly in my > $.ajax() call in IE7?
