jquery ajax call to a remote php file failing

Question

i've got a foo.php file which retrieves client infomation and generates an xml output with the relevant client info.

i'm trying this ajax call which does not seem to want to work

$.get('http://www.foo.php','',function(xml){ $('samplenode',xml).each(function(i){ //stuff done here }); }, 'xml');

i'm still new to javascript, jquery and ajax, so there might be something really silly that i'm overlooking.

(i've tried replacing foo.php with a foo.xml file with a copy/paste of a sample output, and that works fine, so it really seems to be a problem with the call to a php file. and if i go straight to the foo.php file with my browser, the xml is all there and properly formatted, so the problem does not seem to be the php script itself.)

Answer 1

Use 'foo.php' instead.

Answer 2

is your get url correct? You have:

'http://www.foo.php'

Should that be:

'http//www.mysite.com/foo.php'

Answer 3

do you set content-type properly?

Answer 4

actually, turns out it was a problem with the 'type' argument of the $.get function.

simply omitting it seems to have solved the problem

Answer 5

If you want to leave the type, send you document with the correct content type by starting the php with:

header ("content-type: text/xml");