Ah, I see. So the advantage here is that the server is just returning
data to us, rather than a whole page, and having to use .find() to
filter the page? Is it all based on speed, and bandwidth, or is there
another huge advantage that I am missing?
On Aug 20, 12:35 am, Giovanni Battista Lenoci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> hubbs ha scritto:> I am trying to understand JSON, and could use a little
> help.
>
> > How would I use jQuery to write the values onto a page?
>
> user = {
>
> "firstName": "John",
> "lastName": "Smith",
> "address": {
> "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
> "city": "New York",
> "state": "NY",
> "postalCode": 10021
> },
> "phoneNumbers": [
> "212 555-1234",
> "646 555-4567"
> ]
> }
>
> alert(user.firstName);
> alert(user.address.city);> And how do
> > you go the other way, taking values and serializing them into JSON to
> > be sent to the server?
>
> Umh... I'm not sure I've understood the question.
>
> You don't have to send json data to the server, but the server sends
> json data to the client.
>
> For example, if you do an ajax request to a page.php that do a query to
> the db, and return the data, you'll user the function json_encode (php5,
> or PEAR on php4) to write the response for javascript.
>
> <?php
> $record['firstName'] = "John";
> $record['address']['city'] = "New York";
> echo json_encode($record);
> ?>
>
> Bye :-)
>
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