store response from $.get in a variable to use later

Question

I'm retrieving a response from a php with $.get, but how do I store the response in a variable so I can use it later in my code? Thanks!

   $.get('promo_getstate.php', {
            email: emailaddress,
            country: 'DE',
            lang: lang,
            source: '1304_Spring_dly'
                }, function (data) {
                    console.log('data is' + data);
                    getstate = data;
                 }); 

Answer 1

just declare the variable you want to set outside of the .get call itself. then it will be accessible inside of the callback function where you want to set it to the returned data.

var getstate = "";
$.get('promo_getstate.php', {
        email: emailaddress,
        country: 'DE',
        lang: lang,
        source: '1304_Spring_dly'
            }, function (data) {
                console.log('data is' + data);
                getstate = data;
             });