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I've got two pages that use the same js-file to call certain PHP-file and get data from there in JSON format. Although the data that gets in the PHP-file AND data that gets out is exactly the same, Ajax on the second page returns 'parsererror' SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data.

        $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: "json",
        data: {objtyp: this.objtyp, objid: this.objid},
        url: '/admin/getfieldsadd.php', 
        success: function(data) {
        //not going to happen
        },

        error: function (xhr, status, text) {
          switch (status) {
             case 404:
                 alert('File not found');
                 break;
             case 500:
                 alert('Server error');
                 break;
             case 0:
                 alert('Request aborted');
                 break;
             default:
                 alert('Unknown error: ' + status + " " + text);
            }
        }

So have anybody encountered the same problem?

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Post your JSON. – void Feb 15 at 7:26
    
Look at the response in Developer Tools. Make sure there isn't anything in the response other than the JSON. – Barmar Feb 15 at 7:41
    
@Barmar, here – Moorindal Feb 15 at 12:23
    
@void, previous comment. – Moorindal Feb 15 at 13:53

3 Answers 3

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This sounds reminiscent of the dreaded BOM. Excerpt from that link:

At the beginning of a page that uses a Unicode character encoding you may find some bytes that represent the Unicode code point U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK (abbreviated as BOM).

The BOM, when correctly used, is invisible.

Perhaps check that the file's encoding is set to UTF8 Without BOM.

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While this is possible, the more common reason is printing something in the script before calling echo json_encode(). – Barmar Feb 15 at 7:40
    
@Barmar, what do you mean? PHP or JS file? – Moorindal Feb 15 at 12:26
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Maybe a mime type error.

Try to add the beforeSend property like this in your AJAX call :

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    dataType: "json",
    data: {objtyp: this.objtyp, objid: this.objid},
    url: '/admin/getfieldsadd.php',
    beforeSend: function(x) {
        if(x && x.overrideMimeType) {
            x.overrideMimeType("application/json");
        }
    },
    ...
}
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It didn't help, alas. – Moorindal Feb 17 at 4:29
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It appears the trouble was in jQuery version. Now that it's updated all seems to work fine.

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