creating a json object in PHP

Question

how do i create a json object similar to this in PHP?

{
    "employees": [
        { "firstName":"John" , "lastName":"Doe" }, 
        { "firstName":"Anna" , "lastName":"Smith" }, 
        { "firstName":"Peter" , "lastName":"Jones" }
    ]
}

Answer 1

You create an array, and pass it to json_encode

$stuff = array(
    'employees' => array(
        array('firstName' => 'John', 'lastName' => 'Doe'),
        ....
    )
);

echo json_encode($stuff);