Tuesday, 2 April, 2019 UTC
Summary
In this tutorial, we will see How To Convert PHP Array To JSON. Everyday use of JSON is to read data from a web server and display the data on a web page. When exchanging data between the browser and a server, data can only be in the form of text. JSON is text format, and we can convert any JavaScript object into a JSON format, and send that JSON to a server. We can also convert any JSON received from a server into JavaScript objects.
Convert PHP Array To JSON
PHP has some built-in functions to handle JSON. Objects and Array in PHP can be converted into JSON by using the PHP function json_encode(). The PHP json_encode() function returns the string containing a JSON equivalent of the value passed to it as we demonstrate here with the numerically indexed array.
Let’s see the following example.
<?php // app.php $netflix = ['Black Mirror', '13 Reasons Why', 'Bird Box', 'Dirt']; $netJSON = json_encode($netflix); echo $netJSON."\n";
The output is following.
A numerically indexed PHP array is translated to the array literal in a JSON string. JSON_FORCE_OBJECT option can be used if you want that array to be output as the object instead.
See the following code.
<?php // app.php $netflix = ['Black Mirror', '13 Reasons Why', 'Bird Box', 'Dirt']; $netJSON = json_encode($netflix, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); echo $netJSON."\n";
The output is following.
Let’s take an example of converting a key-value pair array to json.
<?php // app.php $data = ['name' => 'Krunal', 'blog' => 'AppDividend', 'education' => 'BE']; $jsonData = json_encode($data); echo $jsonData."\n";
The output of the code is following.
The json_encode() function returns a JSON encoded string on success or FALSE on failure.
A json_encode() example showing some options
See the following code.
<?php
// app.php
$a = array('<foo>',"'bar'",'"baz"','&blong&', "\xc3\xa9");
echo "Normal: ", json_encode($a), "\n";
echo "Tags: ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_TAG), "\n";
echo "Apos: ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_APOS), "\n";
echo "Quot: ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_QUOT), "\n";
echo "Amp: ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_AMP), "\n";
echo "Unicode: ", json_encode($a, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), "\n";
echo "All: ", json_encode($a, JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), "\n\n";
$b = array();
echo "Empty array output as array: ", json_encode($b), "\n";
echo "Empty array output as object: ", json_encode($b, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT), "\n\n";
$c = array(array(1,2,3));
echo "Non-associative array output as array: ", json_encode($c), "\n";
echo "Non-associative array output as object: ", json_encode($c, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT), "\n\n";
$d = array('foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'long');
echo "Associative array always output as object: ", json_encode($d), "\n";
echo "Associative array always output as object: ", json_encode($d, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT), "\n\n";
In the above code, we have passed an options parameter to the json_encode() function.
The various options are Bitmask consisting of JSON_HEX_QUOT, JSON_HEX_TAG, JSON_HEX_AMP, JSON_HEX_APOS, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK,JSON_PRETTY_PRINT, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT, JSON_PRESERVE_ZERO_FRACTION,JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE, JSON_PARTIAL_OUTPUT_ON_ERROR, JSON_UNESCAPED_LINE_TERMINATORS,JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR.
The output of the above code is following.
Finally, How To Convert PHP Array To JSON Tutorial With Example is over.
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