Issues with PHP and JSON data format

[Ravenous]

I'm writing an AJAX application and decided to make use of the JSON data format to communicate between PHP and JavaScript. Using a PHP module from http://www.aurore.net/ gives me two functions, json_encode() and json_decode(). The problem comes when returning this data back to the JavaScript.

All data I return to the JS from my PHP script gives me the data with a silly colon at the front of it. It matters not if I use return json_encode("success"); or if I simply use return TRUE;. For instance, I would receive :success or :1.

Either way, the data gets to the JS and I try to eval() it and I get a syntax error because of the colon immediately preceding the string data.

Is this an issue with PHP in general? Anyone have experience with such a problem? I am at a complete loss. 😕

[MarkR]

Sounds like your JSON library is not behaving correctly. Have you read the documentation properly? Perhaps it doesn't work directly on primitive types and requires an array.

Mark

[Ravenous]

The only reason I don't think it's the JSON library is because I get the colon even with a simple return true; statement. For the time being I'm just removing the colon before I do any processing on the JSON string. It's a work-around, but not one I like.. certainly not elegant.