Question

My returned array is coming back in this strange format that is not valid. At least not in my AJAX experience.

function get_within($latitude, $longitude) { 
global $pdo;

  // $lat = $latitude;
  // $long = $longitude;
  // $long = '-70.98245279999999';
  // $lat = '41.98156549999999';

    $stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT menu_id, latitude, longitude ( acos(
          cos( radians(".$latitude."   ) ) *
            cos( radians( latitude) ) * 
            cos( radians(".$longitude.") - radians(longitude)) +
            sin( radians(".$latitude.") ) * sin( radians(latitude) ) ))*.621371192
as dis from pages where 1 ORDER BY `dis` ASC LIMIT 10");

$stmt->execute( array() );

return $stmt->fetchAll( PDO::FETCH_OBJ );

I made an AJAX request using the above function. I need it to return an object but it is only returning an array like this:

[{"id":"26","subject_id":"5","menu_name":"Bobby Byrne's Food & Pub\u200e","position":"1","visible":"1","content":"Bobby Byrne's Restaurant & Pub\u200e\r\n65 Massachusetts 6A, Sandwich, MA\r\n(508) 888-6088","longitude":"-70.508598","latitude":" 41.765754","dis":"0.00245126419033985"}]

What is wrong and how can I get back my query in objects correctly for use?

Answer 1

Your response is a JSON encoded object. You need to decode the JSON to an object.

Please see:
http://php.net/manual/en/ref.json.php