PHP returns loads of blank spaces - php

Question

i have a login script that uses AJAX, but i have a problem with the code that i cannot work out.
Here is the code:
JS:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#loginForm").submit(function(){
$("#report").removeClass().addClass('loader').html('Loading...').fadeIn(1000);
$.post("check_login.php",{ username:$('#signin_username').val(),password:$('#signin_pwd').val()},function(data){
console.log(data);
if(data == "TRUE"){
document.write(data);
console.log("YEP");
$("#report").fadeTo(200,1,function(){
$(this).html('Logging in.....').addClass('log').fadeTo(900,1,function(){
document.location='members/index.php';
});
});
}
else if(data == "FALSE"){
console.log("NOPE")
$("#report").fadeTo(200,1,function(){
$(this).html('Username or password error.').addClass('error').fadeTo(900,1);
});
}
});
return false;
});
$("#password").blur(function(){
$("#login_form").trigger('submit');
});
});
FORM:
<div id="login_form">
<h3>Login</h3>
<div id="signup_link">
Signup Now
</div>
<div id="report"></div>
<form action="" method="post" id="loginForm">
<ul>
<li>
<label for="username">Email: </label>
<input type="text" id="signin_username" name="signin_username" required="required" />
</li>
<li>
<label for="pwd">Password: </label>
<input type="password" id ="signin_pwd" name="signin_pwd" required="required" />
</li>
<li>
<input type="submit" name="login" id="login" value="Login"/>
</li>
<li>Forgot Password</li>
</ul>
</form>
</div>
and PHP file called by js:
require_once 'members/classes/Membership.php';
# Make instance of membership class
$membership = new Membership();
$true = "FALSE";
$false = "FALSE";
if(!empty($_POST))
{
$username = $_POST['username'];
$pwd = $_POST['password'];
if($test = $membership->validate_user($username, $pwd))
echo $true;
else
echo $false;
}
else
{
echo "Details werent entered";
}
Basically the method the php script is calling checks the database to see if the users details match and if they're allowed to login, if so returns true if not returns false (These are the only two values it will return.
So it works file until we get back into the js code, note the first "console.log" the output of this seems to have loads of white space before the word that im looking for something like this:
"
TRUE"
The space above the true is nothing so when i test if(data == "TRUE") it's never true.
Either something strange is happening or i'm missing something really silly. Can anyone see whats wrong?
Thanks for the time.

Answer 1

Make sure you haven't got any include files that are outputting whitespace. It's easy to make that mistake.