title: Error of value <br of type java.lang.String cannot converted to JSONObject
body: <p>I'm having problem with string cannot convert to JSONObject.Anyone could help to solve this problem? Thanks and very appreciate for helping.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      mysql_connect("localhost","test","");
      mysql_select_db("test");
      $response = array();
      $fullname=$_POST["fullname"];
      $result = mysql_query("select fullname,contact, DATE_FORMAT(reserveDate,'%e-%c-%Y') reserveDate, 
              DATE_FORMAT(reserveTime,'%h:%i %p') reserveTime,
              pax,tableNumber
              from reserve inner join customer using (customerID)
              where fullname=$fullname" );    
      if (mysql_num_rows($result) &gt; 0) {  
          $response["reserve"] = array();
          while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  
              // temp user array
  
              $reserv = array();
  
              $reserv["fullname"] = $row["fullname"];
              $reserv["contact"] = $row["contact"];
              $reserv["reserveDate"] = $row["reserveDate"];
              $reserv["reserveTime"] = $row["reserveTime"];
              $reserv["pax"] = $row["pax"];
              $reserv["tableNumber"] = $row["tableNumber"];
              // push single product into final response array
  
              array_push($response["reserv"], $reserv);
  
          }
  
          // success
          $response["success"] = 1;
          // echoing JSON response
          echo json_encode($response);
      } else {
          $response["success"] = 0;
          $response["message"] = "No user found";
          // echo no users JSON
          echo json_encode($response);
      }
      ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>JSONPARSER class</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.easy;
  
  import java.io.BufferedReader;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.io.InputStreamReader;
  import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
  import java.util.List;
  
  import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
  import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
  import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
  import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
  import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
  import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
  import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
  import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
  import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
  import org.json.JSONException;
  import org.json.JSONObject;
  
  import android.util.Log;
  
  public class JSONParser {
  
  static InputStream is = null;
  static JSONObject jObj = null;
  static String json = "";
  
  // constructor
  public JSONParser() {
  
  }
  
  // function get json from url
  // by making HTTP POST or GET method
  public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
          List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; params) {
  
      // Making HTTP request
      try {
  
          // check for request method
          if(method == "POST"){
              // request method is POST
              // defaultHttpClient
              DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
              HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
              httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
  
              HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
              HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
              is = httpEntity.getContent();
  
          }else if(method == "GET"){
              // request method is GET
              DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
              String paramString = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "utf-8");
              url += "?" + paramString;
              HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
  
              HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
              HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
              is = httpEntity.getContent();
          }           
  
  
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (IOException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
  
      try {
          BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                  is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
          StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
          String line = null;
          while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
              sb.append(line + "\n");
          }
  
          //json = sb.toString();
          json = sb.toString().substring(0, sb.toString().length()-1);
          System.out.println("jsonstring ="+json);
          is.close();
      } catch (Exception e) {
          Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
      }
  
      // try parse the string to a JSON object
      try {
          jObj = new JSONObject(json);
      } catch (JSONException e) {
          Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
      }
  
      // return JSON String
      return jObj;
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>There is an error occur in ReserveInfo class. Get this error" value  . </p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.easy;
  
  import java.util.ArrayList;
  import java.util.Arrays;
  import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
  import java.util.List;
  
  import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
  import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
  import org.json.JSONArray;
  import org.json.JSONException;
  import org.json.JSONObject;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.app.AlertDialog;
  import android.app.ProgressDialog;
  import android.content.DialogInterface;
  import android.os.AsyncTask;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.util.Log;
  import android.view.View;
  import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
  import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
  import android.widget.AutoCompleteTextView;
  import android.widget.Button;
  import android.widget.ScrollView;
  import android.widget.TextView;
  import android.widget.Toast;
  
  public class Custname extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
      TextView custinfo2,lblempty2;
  
  
          Button btnsearch1;
          TextView custinfo,lblempty;
          ScrollView svcustdetails, svreserve;
  
          AutoCompleteTextView txtcustname ;
          String Contacts[];
          int arraysize;  
          private ProgressDialog pDialog;
  
          JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
          JSONParser jParser2 = new JSONParser();
          private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
          private static final String TAG_RESERV = "reserv";
          private static final String TAG_FULLNAME = "fullname";
          private static final String TAG_CONTACT = "contact";
          private static final String TAG_DATE = "reserveDate";
          private static final String TAG_TIME = "reserveTime";
          private static final String TAG_PAX = "pax";
          private static final String TAG_TABLE = "tableNumber";
          JSONArray reserv = null;
          JSONArray reserv2 = null;
          JSONObject json2;
          String contactno;
  
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
          setContentView(R.layout.custname);
  
          btnsearch1= (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnsearch);
  
          svcustdetails=(ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.svcustdetails);
          svreserve=(ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.svreserve);
          custinfo2=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.custinfo2);
  
          txtcustname = (AutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(R.id.txtcustname);     
  
           txtcustname = (AutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(R.id.txtcustname);
  
              btnsearch1= (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnsearch1);
              lblempty2= (TextView)findViewById(R.id.lblempty2);
  
          new LoadContact().execute();
  
          btnsearch1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
              public void onClick(final View v) {
                  if(txtcustname.getText().toString().equalsIgnoreCase("")){
                      Toast.makeText(Custname.this,"Please enter customer name", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                  }else{
                      reset();
                      new ReserveInfo().execute();
                  }   
              }
          });
      }
  
      class LoadContact extends AsyncTask&lt;String, String, String&gt; {
          @Override
          protected void onPreExecute() {
              super.onPreExecute();
          }
  
          protected String doInBackground(String... args) {
              List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; params = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;();    
              JSONObject json = jParser.makeHttpRequest("http://10.0.2.2/Laicamproject/checkName.php", "GET", params);            
              // Check log cat for JSON reponse
              Log.d("All Name: ", json.toString());
              Contacts=new String[arraysize];
  
              try {
                  int success = json.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
                  if (success == 1) {
                      reserv = json.getJSONArray(TAG_RESERV);
                      arraysize=reserv.length();
                      Contacts=new String[arraysize];
                      for(int a=0;a&lt;arraysize;a++){
                           JSONObject c = reserv.getJSONObject(a);
                          Contacts[a]=c.getString(TAG_FULLNAME);
                      }   
                  } else {
                      System.out.println("no user found");
                  }
              } catch (JSONException e) {
                  System.out.println("e3"+e.toString());
              }
  
              return null;
          }
  
  
          protected void onPostExecute(String file_url) {
              //ArrayList with duplicates String
              List&lt;String&gt; dupList = (List&lt;String&gt;) Arrays.asList(Contacts);
  
              //Converting ArrayList to HashSet to remove duplicates
              LinkedHashSet&lt;String&gt; listToSet = new LinkedHashSet&lt;String&gt;(dupList);
  
              //Creating Arraylist without duplicate values
              List&lt;String&gt; contlist = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;(listToSet);
  
              System.out.println("Customer list: " + contlist );
  
              ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt; adapter = new ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt;(Custname.this,android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,contlist  );
              // Set the adapter 
              txtcustname.setAdapter(adapter);
              txtcustname.setThreshold(1);    
          }
  
      }
  
      class ReserveInfo extends AsyncTask&lt;String, String, String&gt; {
  
          @Override
          protected void onPreExecute() {
              super.onPreExecute();       
              pDialog = new ProgressDialog(Custname.this);
              pDialog.setMessage("Loading reservation");
              pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
              pDialog.setCancelable(false);
              pDialog.show();
          }
  
          protected String doInBackground(String... args) {
              String n=txtcustname.getText().toString();
              List&lt;NameValuePair&gt; params = new ArrayList&lt;NameValuePair&gt;();
              params.add(new BasicNameValuePair(TAG_FULLNAME,n ));
              json2 = jParser2.makeHttpRequest("http://10.0.2.2/Laicamproject/cName.php","POST", params);
              System.out.println("params"+params);
              try {
                  reserv2 = json2.getJSONArray(TAG_RESERV);
                  System.out.println("Reservation"+reserv2.toString());
                  int i=0;
              } catch (JSONException e) {
                  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                  System.out.println("e1=="+e.toString());
              }
              return null;
          }
  
          protected void onPostExecute(String file_url) {
              pDialog.dismiss();
              int num=1;
              JSONObject c2;
              try {
                  int success = json2.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
                  if (success == 1) {
                      for(int i=0;i&lt;reserv2.length();i++){
                          c2 = reserv2.getJSONObject(i);
                          //System.out.println("c2.getString(TAG_CONTACT).==="+c2.getString(TAG_CONTACT));
                          //System.out.println("c2.getString(TAG_FULLNAME).==="+c2.getString(TAG_FULLNAME));  
                          custinfo2.setText("Name \t: "+ c2.getString(TAG_FULLNAME)
                                  +"\nPhone \t: " + c2.getString(TAG_CONTACT));   
  
                          lblempty2.append("\n["+num+"] "+"Date \t\t: "+ c2.getString(TAG_DATE)
                                      +"\n\t Time \t\t: " + c2.getString(TAG_TIME)
                                      +"\n\t Pax \t\t\t: "+ c2.getString(TAG_PAX)
                                      +"\n\t Table \t\t: "+ c2.getString(TAG_TABLE)+"\n");
                      }
                  }else{
                      showAlert();
                  }
  
              } catch (JSONException e) {
                  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                  System.out.println("e2=="+e.toString());
          }
      }
  
          public void onClick(View v) {
              // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  
          }
      }
  
          @Override
      public void onClick(View v) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub  
      }
  
      public void showAlert(){
          Custname.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
              public void run() {
                  AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(Custname.this);
                  builder.setTitle("No contact number found")
                         .setCancelable(false)
                         .setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                             public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                                 txtcustname.setText("");
                                 reset();
                             }
                         });                     
                  AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
                  alert.show();               
              }
          });
      }
  
      public void reset(){
          lblempty2.setText("");
          custinfo2.setText("");
      }
  }
  </code></pre>