["data","pre database"][{"email":"thomas@wiregrass.edu","password":"test","fname":"Thomas","lname":"Cummings","phone":"5052030822","temppass":"15151","alert":"B"}]

<?php

$user = "ab73953_test";
$pass = "H3@ther78";
$db = "ab73953_testdb";
$out = array('data', 'pre database');
echo json_encode($out);
$db =  mysqli_connect('localhost', $user, $pass, $db) or die("did not work");


$email=$_POST['username'];
$email = "thomas@wiregrass.edu"; // testing

$qry = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = "'. $email .'"' ;

$result = mysqli_query($db, $qry) or die(" did not query");

$count = mysqli_num_rows($result);
$output = array();
if($count > 0){
 while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
 {
   $output[]=$row;

 }

 echo json_encode($output);

}
else
echo json_encode("Could not find user");

mysqli_close($db);
?>