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Patrioticcow
Patrioticcow

Reputation: 27058

jQuery How to set up a global var problem?

i am tying to set up a global var to be used through my entire script. and as simple as it looks i can't get it to work:

get_back = "";  //should be a global var or
var get_back = "";// another option

$.get('php/get_username.php', { username: userName }, function(data){
    var get_back = data;
    alert(get_back);
});

i want to be able to use the get_back into url: 'http://www.xxx.com/users/' + get_back + ''

any ideas?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 190

Answers (3)

Kranu
Kranu

Reputation: 2567

I'm having difficulty grasping what your code is doing, but try this:

var get_back = ""; //Global Definition

$.get('php/get_username.php', { username: userName },
function(data){
  get_back = data;
  alert(get_back);
});

The difference is that you only use the keyboard "var" once. That way, when it is set later in the function it is the same variable. When you use var, you force a local definition.

Upvotes: 2

Šime Vidas
Šime Vidas

Reputation: 186083

Drop the var declaration from inside the callback function:

var get_back = '';

$.get('php/get_username.php', { username: userName }, function(data) {
    get_back = data;
});

Upvotes: 1

Lightness Races in Orbit
Lightness Races in Orbit

Reputation: 385385

Your variable get_back inside the callback is being declared as a local variable, hiding the outside one. Remove var from that inner declaration, turning it into a bog-standard assignment:

var get_back = "";

$.get('php/get_username.php', { username: userName },
function(data){
    get_back = data;
    alert(get_back);
});

Upvotes: 1

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