how to convert object to JSON - php

Question

My jquery looks like this
var formContent ="action=view&msgid="+id;
$.getJSON("myserv.php",formContent, function(json){
$.each( json, function(k, v){`
alert( "Key: " + k + ", Value: " + v );`
});
});
in my php file i have an array that i json encode
while($message->fetch()) {
$arr[$i]["read"]=$message->test;
$arr[$i]["messageid"]=$message2->test2;
$arr[$i]["subject"]=$message2->test3;
$arr[$i]["text"]=$message2->test4;
}
$str=json_encode($arr);
return $str;
the alert returns Key:0 Value: [Object Object]
Any idea how I can get it to return the correct result? How can I display the results nicely in a div or span?

Answer 1

You are putting it all in a single cell array. And then in your callback, in jQuery, you are trying to loop through the array cell. I'm assuming you want to keep $arr an array (guessing you could have multiple 'read', 'subject', etc) so you should change your js to:
var formContent ="action=view&msgid="+id;
$.getJSON("myserv.php",formContent, function(json){
$.each(json, function(i){
$.each(json[i], function(k, v) {
alert( "Key: " + k + ", Value: " + v ); });
});
});
});
Or, if you don't want a single cell array, and will only return one 'read', 'subject etc, then change your PHP to:
if($message->fetch()) {
$arr["read"]=$message->test;
$arr["messageid"]=$message2->test2;
$arr["subject"]=$message2->test3;
$arr["text"]=$message2->test4;
$str=json_encode($arr);
}
else {
$str=json_encode(Array('error' => 'No message'));
}
return $str;