I am working on a form to submit contact information i have it set to echo what the jquery sees and its showing [object object].

$(document).ready(function()
{
    $("#contact").submit(function()
    {
        //remove all the class add the messagebox classes and start fading
        $("#msgbox").removeClass().addClass('messagebox').text('Submitting').fadeIn(1000);
        //check the username exists or not from ajax
        $.post("template/ajax_contact.php",{ name:$('#name'),email:$('#email'),number:$('#number'),comments:$('#comments'),sample:$('#sample') } ,function(data)
        {
      if(data=='passed') //if correct login detail
          {
              $("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function()  //start fading the messagebox
            {
              //add message and change the class of the box and start fading
              $(this).html('Logging In').addClass('messageboxok').fadeTo(900,1,
            function()
          {
                   //redirect to secure page
                 document.location='success.php';
              });

            });
          }
            
if(data=='spam') //if correct login detail
                {
                $("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function()
                                                     {
                                                        $(this).html('We believe you are not a person').addClass('messageboxerror').fadeTo(900,1); 
                                                     });
                    
                }

if(data=='error') //if correct login detail
                {
                $("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function()
                                                     {
                                                        $(this).html('We believe you are not a person').addClass('messageboxerror').fadeTo(900,1); 
                                                     });
                    
                }


        else
          {
              $("#msgbox").fadeTo(200,0.1,function() //start fading the messagebox
            {
              //add message and change the class of the box and start fading
          $(this).html(data).addClass('messageboxerror').fadeTo(900,1);
            });
          }
        });
         return false; //not to post the  form physically
    });
    //now call the ajax also focus move from
    $("#password").blur(function()
    {
        $("#contact").trigger('submit');
    });

});

Can anyone help straighten this out? Also do you need the form and php code behind this?

where is the alert?

I also noticed you are using $("#email") to collect the value for your fields (i believe). $("#email") returns a jQuery object while $("#email").val() returns the value of the input field with an ID of email.

this should also be in the javascript section not PHP