As far as I can see you are overwriting your abbrs object. You must be getting the last value. You may find jQuery.extend utility usefull: http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.extend
---- Read jQuery HowTo Resource - http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Michael <michaeljones...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have some code that I need help with. I have a database with a list > of abbreviations with is encoded into JSON in a PHP script, the script > below pulls in that data and stores the data as objects (or thats how > I want it to be). > > $("#load_abbr_data").click(function() > { > var abbrs = {} > > $.getJSON("jsondata.php",function(data) > { > $.each(data.abbr_data, function(i,get_abbr_data) > { > var abbr = get_abbr_data.ABBR; > var desc = get_abbr_data.DESCRIPTION; > var lang = get_abbr_data.LANG; > > abbrs = > { > abbr : [desc], > } > }); > }); > }); > > So I would like the resulting object to look like: > > var abbrs = > { > HTML : [ 'HyperText Markup Language'] > , PHP: 'Personal Home Page' > } > > But I don't think it does (or at least it only saves the last record). > > And have this script run: > > var somevar = "PHP"; > for( var i = 0 ; i < abbrs[somevar].length; i++) > { > var expanded = abbrs[somevar]; > } > > alert( somevar + " is short for " + expanded ); > > But the problem is I can't get it to save as the example object. And > when I run the above script nothing works. Could I please have some > help in getting the JSON script working please. >
