title: jquery ajax success not showing data
body: <p>I have a simple form that passes values to php using serialize. Now what I am trying to do is, when the values are passed to php for processing, display a message to the user based on wether there is any data or if the values are empty. I can get the message to display by not doing the checks and having just echo value say 1 for success. Is there a way to display the echo of the php to the user using my code. Thanks</p>
  
  <pre><code>data: send,
        success: function (data) {
        if (data == ''){
        $('#brtv-result').addClass("result_msg").html(data).show(1000).delay(4000).fadeOut(3000);
        }
  
  
  if(empty($service) {
  
  echo 'You must select a service level';
  }
  
  else
  if ($department == "Choose Department"} {
  
  echo 'Please select a department';
  }
  
  else
  if (empty($authorised)) {
  
  echo 'You must enter an authorised name';
  }
  
  else
  if ($address == "Choose Address") {
  
  echo 'Please select a retireval address';
  }
  
  else
  if (empty($boxnumber)) {
  
  echo 'You must enter a box number to retrieve';
  }
  else
  {
  echo $boxnumber;
  }
  </code></pre>