Question

I have PHP code which connects to MySql and encodes data to JSON. Later I would filter it and get specific JSON object. It worked fine while I was using one NameValuePair object but now I want to use variables like username and password. Now I am getting this alert in logcat Error parsing data .org.json.JSONException: Value null of type org.json.JSONObject$1 cannot be converted to JSONArray.

How should I change the code that could work properly ?

$q=mysql_query("SELECT username, firstname, lastname, email, phone1, skype, city, description FROM mdl_user WHERE username LIKE '$username' AND password LIKE '$password'");
while($e=mysql_fetch_assoc($q))
    $output[]=$e;
print(json_encode($output));

Code which sends request:

ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
        nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("usern",""+usr));
        nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("passw",""+psw));
        InputStream is = null; 
        String result = "";
        //http post
        try{
                HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://ik.su.lt/~jbarzelis/Bdarbas/getUserInfo.php");
                httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
                HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
                HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
                is = entity.getContent();
        }catch(Exception e){
                Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
        }

Edited

$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['usern']);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['passw']);
$q=mysql_query("SELECT username, firstname, lastname, email, phone1, skype, city, description
FROM mdl_user WHERE username LIKE '$username' AND password LIKE '$password'");
while($e=mysql_fetch_assoc($q))
    $output[]=$e;
print(json_encode($output));

Answer 1

If this is the entire code that you have put on your server side then i guess you need to first take values into $username and $password using the $_POST[] method like this

$username=$_POST["usern"];
$password=$_POST["passw"];

and the same for password.

since as of now there is no value in the variables your SELECT statement returns null value which is sent to client in JSON format which gives a null value error.