Thank you, that has worked. I tried exactly the same thing before
because i though that returning the boolean from within the $.ajax
method might not work. However instead of using "bool = true;" i was
using "var bool = true;". Have you any idea why using the prefix of
var would stop this working?
On Aug 10, 11:52 am, Steven Yang <kenshin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> if thats the case try
> function checkIfUsername(o)
> {
> var bool;
> $.ajax({
> type: "POST",
> url: ""+CI_ROOT+"index.php/admin/check_if_username",
> data: ({username: username.val()}),
> async: false,
> dataType: "json",
> success: function(data){
> if(data.bool == true){
> o.addClass('ui-state-error');
> updateTips("Your username must be unique");
> //return false;
> bool = false;
> }
> else{
> //return true;
> bool = true;
> }
> }
> });
> return bool;
>
> }
>
> i am not very familiar with the case that async:false
> but from what you described, this should work
