I'm looking to send information from my PHP script to the client using AJAX. What is the optimal transmission form?

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I have five separate, although related, strings of text which I need to transfer from the server (PHP) to the client (JS). I intend to use AJAX, but I've only ever used AJAX for transmitting a single line of plain text.

So, I'm wondering what options I should explore, XML, JSON, etc. in order to best transfer the information, and how to prepare/receive the information.

Depends on your data. This is a gigantically broad and opinionated question for this site. — SomeShinyObject, Feb 01 '14 at 12:54
Very little info. Are these strings key value pairs? What significance are they? What aspect of the application do they contribute to? — SomeShinyObject, Feb 01 '14 at 13:00
They are not key value pairs, and they are fairly significant to the application functioning, however they are also not long. — fvgs, Feb 01 '14 at 13:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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It is easy in PHP to convert data types over to JSON, via json_encode.

XML is only slightly more cumbersome, in that you have to generate the DOMDocument yourself.

There is a breakdown of the pros/cons here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3536893/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-xml-and-json

edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

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answered Feb 01 '14 at 12:55

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I'm looking to send information from my PHP script to the client using AJAX. What is the optimal transmission form?

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