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

The return value is simply the jqXHR object used for the ajax request. To get the response data you need to register a callback.

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