This is related to my last post which I never did figure out. I am sending an AJAX request and am getting a response but not through the request.done function. What happens is that the console shows this:

     ["Costs","rdata","show","sqlite_sequence"]

Which is the correct data returned from the URL sent to  AJAX. The   alert("data returned"+data[0]); is never seen.

1.  
   <script type="text/javascript" >
   
       $("#dbForm").submit(function() {
              
           $("#dbForm").hide();
          
           var dbase=$("#database option:selected").text();
           alert('"database":'+dbase );  // ok
2. 
           var request = $.ajax({
                 url: "tableTest.php",
                 method: "post",
                 data: { "database":dbase},
                 dataType: "json"
   });
   
   request.done(function(data) {             
     alert("data returned"+data[0]);
   });
    
   request.fail(function( jqXHR, textStatus ) {
     alert( "Request failed: " + textStatus );
    
   });
   
   </script>