How to convert stringified data to an object? - php

Question

My php has header('Content-type: application/json') and a json_encode.
The ajax code I use to send the data to the php file has dataType: 'json' and I am sending the data as a string (json.stringify).
The problem is, I can't make $_POST['data'] work on a string.
Any way to convert it to an object?
edit: What I am trying to achieve is, sending data from ajax to php where a query looks up the information from the database and the php file sends an array using JSON to the ajax and the ajax displays it.
Ajax:
function op_prof(obj) {
var xval = obj.id;
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: '../script/profile.php',
dataType: 'json',
data: JSON.stringify({'u_search':'xval'}),
cache: false,
success: function(data) {
console.log(data);
alert(data);
alert({u_search:xval}['u_search']);
$("#co_profile").html(data).show();
}
});
};
PHP:
<?php include(dirname(__FILE__). '/../script/config.php');
session_start();
$id = $_POST['u_search'];
foreach($pdo->query("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE ID='$id'") as $row) {
$fullname = $row['FullName'];
$data = array("u_data"=> true,"inpt"=>"<p>My name is " . $fullname . "</p>");
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($data);
?>
<?php $pdo = null; ?>
I'd also like to know any other way of achieving this (even without using JSON)

Answer 1

Try json_decode("php://input");