Parsing PHP/JSON data in Javascript - php

Question

I'm trying to communicate AJAX, JSON to PHP and then PHP returns some data and I'm trying to parse it with Javascrpt.
From the php, server I return,
echo json_encode($data);
// it outputs ["123","something","and more something"]
and then in client-side,
success : function(data){
//I want the data as following
// data[0] = 123
// data[1] = something
// data[3] = and more something
}
But, it gives as;
data[0] = [
data[1] = "
data[2] = 1
It is reading each character but I want strings from the array, not individual characters. What is happening here? Thanks in advance, I am new to Javascript and JSON, AJAX.

Answer 1

JSON.parse(data) should do the trick.

Answer 2

Set the dataType property of the ajax call to json. Then jQuery will automatically convert your response to object representation.
$.ajax({
url : ...,
data : ...,
dataType : "json",
success : function(json) {
console.log(json);
}
});
Another option is to set headers in PHP so that JQuery understand that you send a JSON object.
header("Content-Type: application/json");
echo json_encode($data);

Answer 3

Check this one... Should Work
success : function(data){
var result = data;
result=result.replace("[","");
result=result.replace("]","");
var arr = new Array();
arr=result.split(",")
alert(arr[0]); //123
alert(arr[1]); //something
alert(arr[2]); //......
}

Answer 4

You did not shown function in which you parse data. But you shoud use
JSON.parse
and if broser does not support JSON then use json polyfill from https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
dataArray = JSON.parse(dataFomXHR);

Answer 5

I'm not sure if this is what you want but why don't you want php to return it in this format:
{'item1':'123','item2':'something','item3':'and more something'}
Well to achieve this, you'll need to make sure the array you json_encode() is associative.
It should be in the form below
array("item1"=>123,"item2"=>"something","item3"=>"more something");
You could even go ahead to do a stripslashes() in the event that some of the values in the array could be URLs
You could then do a JSON.parse() on the JSON string and access the values
Hop this helps!