.post inside jQuery.validator.addMethod always returns false :(

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Published on 2010-06-05T23:53:09Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 0:02 UTC
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Hello! I am very new to jQuery and javascript programming. I have a program below that checks whether username is taken or not. For now, the PHP script always returns

  if(isset($_POST["username"]) )//&& isset($_POST["checking"]))
    {
        $xml="<register><message>Available</message></register>";
        echo $xml;
    }

Login function works, but username checking doesn't. Any ideas? Here is all of my code:

$(document).ready(function() {
jQuery.validator.addMethod("checkAvailability",function(value,element){
    $.post( "login.php" , {username:"test", checking:"yes"}, function(xml){
        if($("message", xml).text() == "Available") return true;
        else return false;
    });
},"Sorry, this user name is not available");
$("#loginForm").validate({
    rules:  {
        username: {
            required: true,
            minlength: 4,
            checkAvailability: true
        },
        password:{
            required: true,
            minlength: 5
        }
    },
    messages: {
        username:{
            required: "You need to enter a username." ,
            minlength: jQuery.format("Your username should be at least {0} characters long.")
        }
    },
    highlight: function(element, errorClass) {
                $(element).fadeOut("fast",function() {
                $(element).fadeIn("slow");
                })
    },
    success: function(x){
        x.text("OK!")
    },
    submitHandler: function(form){send()}
});
function send(){
    $("#message").hide("fast");
    $.post( "login.php" , {username:$("#username").val(), password:$("#password").val()}, function(xml){
        $("#message").html( $("message", xml).text() );
        if($("message", xml).text() == "You are successfully logged in.")
        {
            $("#message").css({ "color": "green" });
            $("#message").fadeIn("slow", function(){location.reload(true);});
        }
        else
        {
            $("#message").css({ "color": "red" });
            $("#message").fadeIn("slow");
        }
    });
}
$("#newUser").click(function(){

    return false;
});

});

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