Ajax call to PHP is returning nothing

Question

I\'m trying to make my first ajax example working on my MAMP. my ajax.html looks like:

Answer 1

Your problem is that you're trying to do a cross domain request. The browser prevents it due to same origin policy.

The standard solution is to set CORS headers in your PHP to allow those requests.

For example :

<?php
header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
?>