I have this on my console on firebug,
[Object { fa_id="1167535", f_id="1000", loc_type="6", more...}, Object { fa_id="1167535", f_id="1000", loc_type="6", more...}]
it is data from the server side. Now, how would I convert this into array such that this data can be used on another file. I tried JSON.parse and jQuery.parseJSON but both did not work.
That isn't JSON it's a Javascript array of objects, not a string. My guess is that you've received this from a jQuery ajax call and you had the dataType : 'json' set so that jQuery has automatically parsed the JSON into this array.
To send it to a PHP script you can convert it back to JSON using:
var myString = JSON.stringify(data);
and then fire off an ajax call to the PHP script with that as the POST data:
var myString = JSON.stringify(data);
$.post('page.php', { data : myString }, function(){
console.log( "sent" );
});
In PHP you can decode it using:
$data = json_decode($_POST['data']); // <-- or whatever your post variable is named
foreach($data as $obj)
{
echo $obj->fa_id;
}
JSON.stringify, and just do $.post('page.php', { data : data }). $_POST['data'] would then just be a an array of arrays.
if you want to get an php array use this
The string you provided is not valid JSON.
[Object { fa_id="1167535", f_id="1000", loc_type="6", more...},
Object { fa_id="1167535", f_id="1000", loc_type="6", more...}]
In particular, the "Object" and "more..." strings cannot be interpreted by a JSON parser.
Assuming the object you are inspecting is a variable named foo:
console.log(JSON.stringify(foo));
Should print a valid JSON representation of your object to the Javascript console.
$.parseJSON? That's a jQuery function. As others have said, you don't have valid JSON, so you're never going to get it to parse correctly...