Display json data formed from PHP in table using angularjs

Im fetching data from mysql db and putting it in json format.

fetch.php file:

echo $json; outputs the below to the console.

[{"id":"1","emp_no":"1111","first_name":"1fname","last_name":"1lname","dept_name":"1dept"},{"id":"2","emp_no":"2222","first_name":"2fname","last_name":"2lname","dept_name":"2dept"},{"id":"3","emp_no":"3333","first_name":"3fname","last_name":"3lname","dept_name":"3dept"},{"id":"4","emp_no":"4444","first_name":"4fname","last_name":"4lname","dept_name":"4dept"},{"id":"5","emp_no":"5555","first_name":"5fname","last_name":"5lname","dept_name":"5dept"},{"id":"6","emp_no":"6666","first_name":"6fname","last_name":"6lname","dept_name":"6dept"},{"id":"7","emp_no":"7777","first_name":"7fname","last_name":"7lname","dept_name":"7dept"},{"id":"8","emp_no":"8888","first_name":"8fname","last_name":"8lname","dept_name":"8dept"},{"id":"9","emp_no":"9999","first_name":"9fname","last_name":"9lname","dept_name":"9dept"}]

My controller looks like this:

.controller('fetchController', function ($scope, $http) {
$http.get("fetch.php")
    .success(function (data) {
        $scope.user = data;
        console.log($scope.user);
    });

$scope.user = data.data; Some suggested this but I get an undefined when I console.log($scope.user);

When $scope.user = data; console.log($scope.user); shows the same json output as above.

I then want to put this into my html table:

<table>
<tr>
    <th>ID</th>
    <th>Number</th>
    <th>First</th>
    <th>Last</th>
    <th>Depart</th>
</tr>
<tr ng-repeat="x in user track by $index">
    <td>{{x.id}}</td>
    <td>{{x.emp_no}}</td>
    <td>{{x.first_name}}</td>
    <td>{{x.last_name}}</td>
    <td>{{x.dept_name}}</td>
</tr>

But im getting no data returned to my page... Data is returned when I hardcode some json data but not when reading from the PHP query. Any ideas why?

.controller('fetchController', function ($scope, $http) {
    $http.get("fetch.php")
        .success(function (data) {
            $scope.user = [{
                "id": "1",
                "emp_no": "1111",
                "first_name": "1fname",
                "last_name": "1lname",
                "dept_name": "1dept"
            }, {
                "id": "2",
                "emp_no": "2222",
                "first_name": "2fname",
                "last_name": "2lname",
                "dept_name": "2dept"
            }];
            console.log($scope.user);
        });

Returns:

Edit: Ive added more detail to the post so hopefully someone can see where the problem lies.