I have a combo select and an AJAX call to load the data and populate it.
<select id="order_products"><option value="0">Loading data...</option></select>
var kmx = jQuery.noConflict();
function loadProducts() {
var myProductSelect = kmx('#order_products');
myProductSelect.empty();
myProductSelect.append("<option value='0'>Loading data...</option>");
kmx.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: baseurl,
data: urlquery_ajax + "getOrderProductsInJsonFormatAjax&order_id=" + order_id + '¬_linked=1',
success: function(data){
data = kmx.parseJSON(data);
populateCombo(myProductSelect, data, 'Select Product');
},
failure: function(msg){
msg = kmx.trim(msg);
alert('Error: ' + msg.responseText);
}
});
}
/**
* Populate the combo
*/
function populateCombo(myComboObj, myData, myText) {
myComboObj.empty();
myComboObj.append("<option value='0'>" + myText + "</option>");
kmx.each(myData.rows, function(index,item) {
myComboObj.append('<option value="' + item.id + '"' + '>' + item.number + '</option>');
});
}
Nothing special but there is a problem when I run the code: The page becomes white! I cannot even see the code source of the page!
But if I add the variable:
var myProductSelect = kmx('#order_products');
into the success method, before calling the function to populate, it works:
success: function(data){
data = kmx.parseJSON(data);
var myProductSelect = kmx('#order_products'); // <<<<<-----
populateCombo(myProductSelect, data, 'Select Product');
},
So, I would like to understand what is the problem? I read the post about the variable scopes, closure and asynchronous calls for AJAX, but I still don't understand my problem.