Ajax转PHP和后CSV

Question

Cant work out how to send results csv back as an object from Ajax , Its simple enough, the search works as expected but the results are sent back as a string i gather...

CSV

header1 , header2 , header3, header4, header5
Foo     ,  age-20 , male   , city NY , Cars  
Bar     ,  age-32 , female , city FL , Clothes
etc...

PHP

$search = $_POST['search'];
$row = 0;
$handle = fopen("items/data.csv", "r");
$complete = array();
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
        if ($row == 0) {
            $row++;
        }else {
        for ($x=0; $x < 4; $x++) {  
             $se = $data[$x];
             if ($se == $search){
                 $num = count($data);
                 $row++;
                     for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {  
                     $complete[] = $data[$c] ;  
                }
            }
    }
}
}
fclose($handle);       
echo json_encode($complete);

AJAX

$.ajax({    
url:'search.php',
type: 'POST',
data: {search: $('#search').val()},
success: function(data) {
 console.log(data);

},
error: function (error ,xml){
console.log(error);
}
}) 
}   

Im having a hard time trying to use this information that is returning, I deally i would like it as an array();

 **Returned String Output**

["Bar","Age-32","Female","city FL","Clothes"]

Thanks

Answer 1

The first thing that comes to mind is $.ajax having a dataType attribute that allows you to force an expected data type, in this case json.

Note that - as per the documentation - you don't need to define dataType if the MIME type is set correctly on the server side. You can use PHP's header function to achieve this: header('Content-Type: application/json').

Read the official documentation here.

$.ajax({
    url: 'search.php',
    type: 'POST',
    dataType: 'json',
    data: { search: $('#search').val() },
    success: function(data) {
        console.log(data);
    },
    error: function (error, xml) {
        console.log(error);
    }
});