$.ajax datatype:json throws error - php

Question

I'm trying to retrieve a json object through a ajax request from a php file. My ajax request looks like the following:
function validateForm() {
var name = $('#usernameLogIn').val();
var password = $('#passwordLogIn').val();
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: '../webroot/login/validateForm/',
data: {name: name, password: password},
dataType: 'json',
success: function(result) {
var data = JSON.stringify(result);
var b = $.parseJSON(data);
alert(b);
},
error: function(a,b,c) { console.log(a,b,c); }
});
}
and my php file looks like this:
$form = $this->form;
$status = false;
$name = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9]/", " ", $_GET['name']);
$formPassword = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9]/", " ", $_GET['password']);
$now = date(DATE_RFC2822);
$user = $this->user->findName($name);
if(isset($user->name))
{
$password = $user->password;
$status = password_verify($formPassword, $password);
}
if ($status === true)
{
$this->session->set('loggedIn', $this->user->name);
}
else if ($status === false) {
$this->session->clearSession('loggedIn');
}
$sessionLog = $this->session->get('loggedIn');
$advert = array(
'session' => $sessionLog,
'name' => $name,
'password' => $formPassword,
);
echo json_encode($advert);
exit;
Finally when it passes the values back to my Ajax request it goes straight into the error function and prints the following into the console:
Object "parsererror" SyntaxError
message: Unexpected Token <"
Is it any way to tell where this goes wrong and why?
thankfull for answers, cheers.

Answer 1

I think you have verbose set to true in you config file.