SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 at Object.parse (native) (AngularJS)

Question

I\'m successfully saving my data into a json file with a php script (save-data.php) but I\'m unable to fetch it correctly with my get-data.php script.

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Answer 1

Invariably, 99.9999999% of the time you get Unexpected token < in JSON as position 0 in the error, you did NOT receive json from the server. You received an HTML error message with your json following afterwards.

PHP warning: blah blah blah
{"foo":"bar"}

The leading < in the

... is where the error comes from, because that's position 0 (first character).

Check the raw data coming back from the server, and fix whatever the error/warning that PHP is spitting out.