Php - how to encode an array as json and send it back - php

Question

Allow me to preface this by saying that I looked at multiple SO posts on this and I am still lost.
So in my php code I am fetching data from my database and then I am trying to insert it into an array as follows:
$arrayResult = array();
foreach ($result as $item) {
array_push($arrayResult, array("type" => $item['type'],
"count" => $item['count'])
);
}
echo json_encode($arrayResult);
My problem is as follows, the only time my JS shows any data is when I just print out the data on a successful AJAX call, any attempts at manipulating it fail totally. As in, no data shown at all.
var arrayResult = null;
$.get("../php/displayGraph.php",
function (data) {
arrayResult = (data);
var result = JSON.parse(arrayResult);
$("#results").html(arrayResult);
//$("#results").html(JSON.parse(arrayResult));
}
);
The result of this is:
[{"type":"Entertainment","count":"4"},{"type":"Other","count":"31"},{"type":"Politics","count":"50"},{"type":"Sports","count":"3"},{"type":"Technology","count":"9"}]
I am honestly at a loss in terms of what I even need to do to make it work. And here I thought java was bad with json.

Answer 1

Try like this,
$.get("../php/displayGraph.php",
function (data) {
$.each(data, function (i,item){
console.log(item.type + " === " +item.count);
}
/*arrayResult = (data);
var result = JSON.parse(arrayResult);*/
//$("#results").html(arrayResult);
//$("#results").html(JSON.parse(arrayResult));
}
);

Answer 2

Not sure why, but the following works
$.get("../php/displayGraph.php",
function (data) {
var result = JSON.parse(data);
$("#results").html(data);
console.log(result[1][0].count);
}
);
Certainly is a 2D array the way my php makes it, but i did not think this would be how to do as all the other tutorials i saw never had it like this.