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AJAX login without reloading page

I was logging into my iCloud account and I was wondering how it was possible for them to log me in without reloading the page. As I know it is not possible for jQuery to execute any PHP scripts, nor possible to create a session after the page has been loaded. I believe that it may be using some cookies or something, but still I don't understand how they make php get these cookies without reloading the page after login.

Solution

  • Send it back as json data using 

    echo json_encode(your array of data here)

    and set the datatype in $.ajax to "json", you can then access that data as the first param in the success callback 

    success: function(data) { 
     console.log(data);
}