jQuery return ajax result into outside variable

Question

I have some problem using ajax   How can I assign all result from ajax into outside variable    I google it up and found this code    var return first    function          var tmp   null        ajax            async   false           type    POST            global   false           dataType    html            url    ajax php first            data      request        target   arrange url   method   method target             success   function  data                tmp   data                        return tmp        but not work for me    Can anybody tell what is wrong about that code

User · Accepted Answer

You are missing a comma after   data      request        target    arrange url    method    method target      Also  if you want return first to hold the result of your anonymous function  you need to make a function call   var return first   function          var tmp   null        ajax            async   false           type    POST            global   false           dataType    html            url    ajax php first            data      request        target    arrange url    method    method target              success   function  data                tmp   data                        return tmp         Note    at the end

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This is all you need to do   var myVariable     ajax        async   false       type    POST        global   false       dataType    html        url    ajax php first        data      request        target    arrange url    method    method target          success   function  data            myVariable   data                 NOTE  Use of  async  has been depreciated  See https   xhr spec whatwg org

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So this is long after the initial question  and technically it isn t a direct answer to how to use Ajax call to populate exterior variable as the question asks  However in research and responses it s been found to be extremely difficult to do this without disabling asynchronous functions within the call  or by descending into what seems like the potential for callback hell  My solution for this has been to use Axios  Using this has dramatically simplified my usages of asynchronous calls getting in the way of getting at data    For example if I were trying to access session variables in PHP  like the User ID  via a call from JS this might be a problem  Doing something like this    async function getSession       use strict    const getSession   await axios  http     url    auth      getSession     log getSession data    test  return getSession data      Which calls a PHP function that looks like this   public function getSession       session   new SessionController      session- gt Session      sessionObj   new  stdClass      sessionObj- gt user id     SESSION  user id     echo json encode  sessionObj       To invoke this using Axios do something like this   getSession   then function  res     log res    test  anyVariable   res   anyFunction res    set any variable or populate another function waiting for the data       The result would be  in this case a Json object from PHP     user id   1111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111     Which you can either use in a function directly in the response section of the Axios call or set a variable or invoke another function   Proper syntax for the Axios call would actually look like this   getSession   then function  res     log res    test  anyVariable   res   anyFunction res    set any variable or populate another function waiting for the data    catch function  error     console log error         For proper error handling   I hope this helps anyone having these issues  And yes I am aware this technically is not a direct answer to the question but given the answers supplied already I felt the need to provide this alternative solution which dramatically simplified my code on the client and server sides

User · Answer

I solved it by doing like that    var return first    function              var tmp     ajax                type    POST                dataType    html                url    ajax php first                data      request        target   arrange url   method                        method target                 success   function  data                    tmp   data                           done function data                   return data                    return tmp             Be careful  async  fale javascript will be asynchronous

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async   false says it s depreciated  I did notice if I run console log  test1    on ajax success  then console log  test2    in normal js after the ajax function  test2 prints before test1 so the issue is an ajax call has a small delay  but doesn t stop the rest of the function to get results  The variable simply  was not set  yet   so you need to delay the next function    function runPHP        var input   document getElementById  input1        var result    failed to run php          ajax   url    test php           type   POST           data   action   test            success  function data                result   data                         setTimeout function            console log result          1000       on test php  incase you need to test this function   function test        print  ran php      if isset   POST  action     amp  amp   empty   POST  action            action   htmlentities   POST  action         switch  action            case  test    test   break

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Using  async   false to prevent asynchronous code is a bad practice      Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of   its detrimental effects to the end user s experience  https   xhr spec whatwg org    On the surface setting async to false fixes a lot of issues because  as the other answers show  you get your data into a variable   However  while waiting for the post data to return  which in some cases could take a few seconds because of database calls  slow connections  etc   the rest of your Javascript functionality  like triggered events  Javascript handled buttons  JQuery transitions  like accordion  or autocomplete  JQuery UI   will not be able to occur while the response is pending  which is really bad if the response never comes back as your site is now essentially frozen    Try this instead   var return first  function callback response      return first   response      use return first variable here      ajax      type    POST      global   false     dataType    html      url    ajax php first      data      request        target   arrange url   method   method target       success   function data          callback data

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