AJAX success getting a certain value of object

Question

So I'm polling my server for information. Below is what I get back through firebug, but I'm only wanting the new notifications to post into their div if the response.notification_status value of 1 is met. Because as soon as it polls it again that very notification is set to the value of 2.

 {"num":1,"notification_id":"783","notification_content":
    "Lucy  Botham posted a status on your wall","notification_throughurl"
        :"singlepoststreamitem.php?streamitem_id=663","notification_triggeredby":"85",
    "notification_status":"1"
        ,"notification_time":"2015-11-08 01:58:22"}

And my actual success and what I've tried.

success: function(response){
if(response.notification_status = 1){
//PREPEND NOTIFICATION
}

Okay,, So how would I get the actual value of 1 and not 2 through the response? — The River Scene Music, Nov 08 '15 at 02:26
@TheRiverSceneMusic, As you are trying to compare, use `==` or `===`. Right now you are assigning value — Rayon, Nov 08 '15 at 02:27
== vs === http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359494/does-it-matter-which-equals-operator-vs-i-use-in-javascript-comparisons — rjdown, Nov 08 '15 at 02:30
`===` are strict equality operator which also checks the type of values. — Rayon, Nov 08 '15 at 02:31
@TheRiverSceneMusic Only if you use `===`. If you don't type check it does not matter if you're comparing with an int or string — Simian, Nov 08 '15 at 02:56

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '15 at 02:51

The problem right now is that the operator =, that you are using in your if statement is the assignment operator, and cannot be used to compare values. What you need is the == operator. So you would need to do something like this:

success: function(response){
if(response.notification_status == 1){
//PREPEND NOTIFICATION
}

AJAX success getting a certain value of object

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