return responseText from jQuery.get()

Question

I tried to do something like this :

var msg = $.get(\"my_script.php\");

I thought msg would be set to the text returned by my_script.php,i.

Answer 1

You can always use:

var msg;
$.get("my_script.php", function(text) {
  msg = text;
});

If for some reason the response is text, the remote script might be changing the content-type to something like JSON, and thus jQuery tries to parse the string before outputting to you.