wordpress PHP with Ajax call

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

Im looking to return user data back as a string through ajax with wordpress

Iv got the basic concept down

PHP

this is placed in my functions.php

add_action('template_redirect', 'edit_user_concept');
function edit_user_concept(){
      $id = $_POST['getbyID'];
      $user_info = get_userdata($id);
      echo 'Username: ' . $user_info->user_login . "\n";
      echo 'User roles: ' . implode(', ', $user_info->roles) . "\n";
      echo 'User ID: ' . $user_info->ID . "\n";
}

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Jquery/JS

    $.ajax({
         url: "http://www.example.com/",
         method: "POST",
         data: {
             getbyID: "23",
         },
         success: function(response){
             console.log(response);
             //example script logic here
         }
    })

the console log result is correct how ever its also logging lots of html elements that are not included in this. Such as

im not exactly sure why.

here is a small example to large to post in its full

Username: someusername
User roles: subscriber
User ID: 23

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