var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{"name":"John"}');
alert( obj.name === "John" );

See the jQuery API.

Suppose you have an array in PHP as $iniData with 5 fields. If using ajax -

echo json_encode($iniData);

In Javascript, use the following :

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: "ajaxCalls.php",
            data: "dataType=ini",
            success: function(msg)
            {
                var x = eval('(' + msg + ')');
                $('#allowed').html(x.allowed);              // these are the fields which you can now easily access..
                $('#completed').html(x.completed);
                $('#running').html(x.running);
                $('#expired').html(x.expired);
                $('#balance').html(x.balance);
            }
        });
    });
</script>

If you get this text in an alert:

function(){return JSON.encode(this);}

when you try alert(myArray[i]), then there are a few possibilities:

• myArray[i] is a function (most likely)
• myArray[i] is the literal string "function(){return JSON.encode(this);}"
• myArray[i] has a .toString() method that returns that function or that string. This is the least likely of the three.

The simplest way to tell would be to check typeof(myArray[i]).

eval('(' + jsonObject + ')')

JSON decoding in JavaScript is simply an eval() if you trust the string or the more safe code you can find on http:// if you don't.

You will then have a JavaScript datastructure that you can traverse for the data you need.

If the object element you get is a function, you can try this:

var url = myArray[i]();

I decode JSON this way:

eval( 'var from_json_object = ' + my_json_str + ';' );