How to create an array for JSON using PHP?

Question

Easy peasy lemon squeezy: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

<?php
$arr = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3, 'd' => 4, 'e' => 5);

echo json_encode($arr);
?>

There's a post by andyrusterholz at g-m-a-i-l dot c-o-m on the aforementioned page that can also handle complex nested arrays (if that's your thing).

Use PHP's native json_encode, like this:

<?php
$arr = array(
    array(
        "region" => "valore",
        "price" => "valore2"
    ),
    array(
        "region" => "valore",
        "price" => "valore2"
    ),
    array(
        "region" => "valore",
        "price" => "valore2"
    )
);

echo json_encode($arr);
?>

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Update: To answer your question in the comment. You do it like this:

$named_array = array(
    "nome_array" => array(
        array(
            "foo" => "bar"
        ),
        array(
            "foo" => "baz"
        )
    )
);
echo json_encode($named_array);

Simple: Just create a (nested) PHP array and call json_encode on it. Numeric arrays translate into JSON lists ([]), associative arrays and PHP objects translate into objects ({}). Example:

$a = array(
        array('foo' => 'bar'),
        array('foo' => 'baz'));
$json = json_encode($a);

Gives you:

[{"foo":"bar"},{"foo":"baz"}]

Best way that you should go every time for creating json in php is to first convert values in ASSOCIATIVE array.

After that just simply encode using json_encode($associativeArray). I think it is the best way to create json in php because whenever we are fetching result form sql query in php most of the time we got values using fetch_assoc function, which also return one associative array.

$associativeArray = array();
$associativeArray ['FirstValue'] = 'FirstValue';

... etc.

After that.

json_encode($associativeArray);

also for array you can use short annotattion:

$arr = [
    [
        "region" => "valore",
        "price" => "valore2"
    ],
    [
        "region" => "valore",
        "price" => "valore2"
    ],
    [
        "region" => "valore",
        "price" => "valore2"
    ]
];

echo json_encode($arr);