Question

I have a php multidimensional array populated from a table using the following code:

<?php starts

$array = array();
$i = 0;

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{

$array[$i] = array("handle" => $row['handle'],"firstname" => $row['first_name'],"lastname" => $row['last_name']);
$i++;
}

echo json_encode(json_encode($array));

?> php ends

this is called by .post from jQuery and when I alert() the data returned I get the following output:

[
{"handle":"admin","firstname":"admin","lastname":"admin"},
{"handle":"ms","firstname":"ms","lastname":"ms"},
{"handle":"op","firstname":"op","lastname":"op"},
{"handle":"ui","firstname":"ui","lastname":"ui"}
]

the Jquery code I use to extract the php array is:

$.post("test1.php","",
            function(data){

                var obj = $.parseJSON(data);
                alert(obj);
                var obj2 = $.parseJSON(obj);
                alert(obj2);
                alert(obj2[1]);
                var result = eval(data);
                alert(result[0][0]);


    },"html");

alert(obj) gives me the output specified.
alert(obj2) gives me:

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

alert(obj2[1]) gives me:

[object Object]

How do I get at the data in this???

Answer 1

Your first

var obj = $.parseJSON(data);

Should be all you need. You can then access your objects like:

obj[0]['handle']
// or
obj[0].handle