OT: json data files - open to view

Just trying to work out how to get  a variable, which holds the json data back into the receiving page? If I echo the data out in the php page using $export it works BUT if I just assign the jason data to a variable I'm not sure how to pass that variable back to the page where the json data is needed.

Php processing page:

$data = $conn->query("SELECT code FROM deliveries WHERE code LIKE '$searchCode%'") or die($conn->error);

$response = array();

while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($data)){

$response[] = $row;

}

$exports = json_encode($response);

echo $exports;

Below is in the page where the data needs to be returned and 'response.data' which is fetched from the php processing page is stored in the 'data: code' array so the page can access it.

data: {

code: [],

},

methods: {

recordByCode: function(){

axios.get('get_code_process.php', {

params: {

searchCode: this.searchCode

}

})

.then(function (response) {

this.code = response.data;

})

So somehow, IF I store the jason data in a php variable, which wont show the information if the php processing script is directly accessed, it has to get back to the page where its needed.