XML Parsing Error: no root element found

Question

I am trying to search for all properties in a database that are in one suburb. I have read that it has something to do with the HTML code 204 but I still do not undertand wh

Answer 1

As you seem to be using an Ajax function that is not shown it is hard to determine the root cause of the problem because nothing above, as far as I can tell, would yield the error you allude to in the title of the posting - namely "XML Parsing Error: no root element found" - I wonder therefore if there should be a configuration option in Ajax.Request that needs to be set to deal with a basic string response?

That aside you might be able to make use of the following - perhaps even for diagnosis purposes.

prepare( $sql );

    if( $stmt ){

        $searcharea = $_POST['searchAreaBar'];

        $stmt->bind_param( 's', $searcharea );
        $stmt->execute();
        $stmt->store_result();
        $stmt->bind_result( $suberbs );
        $stmt->fetch();

        echo $stmt->num_rows()==0 ? "No" : "Yes";

    }
    $stmt->close();
    $db->close();
?>