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

If you are using a newer version (over 1.3.x) you should learn more about the function parseJSON! I experienced the same problem. Use an old version or change your code

success=function(data){
  //something like this
  jQuery.parseJSON(data)
}