Getting a string from PHP using jQuery

Basically, I have a jQuery script which detects when a certain button is pressed. When the button is pressed, the script is meant to make a GET request to a separate PHP file. The PHP file should return a string to the JavaScript file, but I have multiple errors in both my scripts, creating a problem.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
      $('#generate').click(function(){
       $.get("give.php?data").done(function(info){
        console.log(info);
       });
      });
    });
</script>

When logging info, I get nothing. Literally, nothing.

<?php
   $f_contents = file("combo.txt");
   $line = $f_contents[array_rand($f_contents)];
   $data = $line;
   $_GET['data']
?>

That’s my PHP script.

If someone can help me out, I would appreciate it. None of the posts on the internet helped me out.

Thanks!

Oh and yes, I know my code is terrible.

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Answer

• No, you’re code is not terrible
• You need to know the difference between $_GET['data'] and echoing out variable called $data .. If you know its Ok

To solve your problem you need to

• Directly access the php file in the browser something like http://localhost/give.php and play with the php file to get the result printed out .. you may need to check the combo.txt file directory it may ./combo.txt or something else

• Then copy the fullurl like http://localhost/give.php then paste it to $.get(fullurl....

Some notes

• You’ve to echo out the data in your php file echo $_GET['data'] or echo $data to echo the file content data

• With $.get you can use $.get('url' , {} , function(response){ console.log(response); });