jQuery AJAX Call to PHP Script with JSON Return

Question

I\'ve been smashing my head against a brick wall with this one, i\'ve tried loads of the solutions on stackoverflow but can\'t find one that works!

Basically when I

Answer 1

Make it dataType instead of datatype.

And add below code in php as your ajax request is expecting json and will not accept anything, but json.

header('Content-Type: application/json');

Correct Content type for JSON and JSONP

The response visible in firebug is text data. Check Content-Type of the response header to verify, if the response is json. It should be application/json for dataType:'json' and text/html for dataType:'html'.