I am having trouble with my jquery script below, this is a basic stripped down version and even it will not work, I have the php file that the jquery script makes a call to, I have it set to encode and show a json response Then in the jquery script it should read the value and respond to it but It is not getting the response. Is json.response the wrong way to call a variable in the json string that is name response? Can someone help please I am stuck 'error','comment'=>'test comment here'); echo json_encode($arr); ?> //the script above returns this: {"response":"error","comment":"test comment here"} UPDATE; I have changed json.response into data.response But this did not make it ork either