AJAX not working without alert box [duplicate]

Answer 1

in your code the ajax call is working asynchronous, so no matter you are responded or not your next lines will be executed. In sync call your next lines will not be executed untill you get response. you could turn into $.ajax from $.post and make async property false. Then you will be able to get and then you can get the value of "reply" after the ajax call is responded.

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: url,
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType,
  async:false
});