jQuery $.ajax request of dataType json will not retrieve data from PHP script

Question

I\'ve been looking all over for the solution but I cannot find anything that works. I am trying to get a bunch of data from the database and then via AJAX autocomplete input

Answer 1

In addition to McHerbie's note, try json_encode( $json_arr, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT ); if you are on PHP 5.3...