title: jquery and PHP - Sending information back from php to the JS
body: <p>Thanks for all the great answers, this helps a lot!</p>
  
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  <p>Hello, I need some advice/help (obviously)</p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty new to jquery/ajax in general but I have been able to do quite a bit so far.  Here is what I am TRYING to do and then what I have managed to do so far.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to emulate the wordpress post categories. Where you are writing a post and then when you want to add it to a category it lets you just create new checkbox categories on the spot!  </p>
  
  <p>I have managed to get it working to where I send the request to a php script and it adds the record to my DB and then it appends the new checkbox to the bottom of my list.  The issue I have is that I need to return the two values from PHP, the ID and the NAME.  Right now I can return the name but I am not sure how to return them separately so that I can manipulate them in the JS.  </p>
  
  <p>I might be going about this in the wrong way completely.  The idea is that I would create the new category records and then append them back to the category list using JS and then I would checkmark them and when I click "save" the values (IDs) would be sent to the current row (post) in the DB. </p>
  
  <p>I hope i'm making some sense.  If you have any questions please ask away and if you have any ideas or answers please let me know!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>