$ .AJAX Async False
var phpData = (function get_php_data() {
var php_data;
$.ajax({
url: "http://somesite/v1/api/get_php_data",
async: false,
//very important: else php_data will be returned even before we get Json from the url
dataType: 'json',
success: function (json) {
php_data = json;
}
});
return php_data;
})();
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