HI everyone.

I have a ajax call to a php script that returns a JSON list.

as below

$.ajax({
				  url: 'getRestaurants.php',	
				  dataType: "json",
				  success: function(data){
					  msgObj = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
				      alert(msgObj.Juicy);
				  },
				  error: function(e, xhr){				      
					  alert("fail " + xhr);
				  }
				});

my php ( getRestaurants.php) is simply ::

$aFruits = array (    "Juicy"     => "Grapes",
                      "Colourful" => "Dragon Fruit");  
$szJsonEncoded = json_encode($aFruits);  
echo $szJsonEncoded;

BUT when i alert the parsed data, alert(msgObj.Juicy); I get an error
that "msgObj is NULL"

Could anyone see what i am doing wrong please.


Thanks very much

Steve

I'm pretty sure you should not try to parse the data yourself. jQuery will do that for you, since you specified json as data type. So just remove the line where you parse the data, and alert data.Juicy instead.

And for the record, should you ever be in actual need of parsing any data manually (which I had to do once, when using a plugin that didn't) you'll have to enclose it in a try-catch block, as in

try {
   json = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
   alert(json.Juicy);
} catch (e) {
   alert('Could not parse json data');
}

Cheers for your reply
I actually found the $.getJSON which pretty much does as i require.

Cheers