Remove the brackets in json?

Question

How can I get rid of the brackets below for json processing?

[{"success":true,"filename":"bialding_and_rebialding_plymouth02.jpg"},{"success":true,"filename":"bialding_and_rebialding_plymouth03.jpg"},{"success":true,"filename":"bialding_and_rebialding_plymouth04.jpg"}]

The result above is processed by the class below into an array,

function handle_upload($upload_directory)
    {
        # Loop the code according to the number of files.
        for($i = 1; $i <= $this->total; $i++)
        {
            ...

            if ($this->file->save($upload_directory.$name_filtered.'.'.$file_extension , $i-1))
            {
                $message[] = array('success'=>true,'filename'=>$name_filtered.'.'.$file_extension);
            }
            else 
            {
                $message[] = array('error'=> 'Could not save uploaded file.' . 'The upload was cancelled, or server error encountered');
            }
        }

        return $message;
    }

Then I use json_encode to turn the array into json format,

$uploader = new uploader();
$result = $uploader->handle_upload('uploads/');

echo htmlspecialchars(json_encode($result), ENT_NOQUOTES);

But I only need this in my result without the brackets,

{"success":true,"filename":"bialding_and_rebialding_plymouth02.jpg"},{"success":true,"filename":"bialding_and_rebialding_plymouth03.jpg"},{"success":true,"filename":"bialding_and_rebialding_plymouth04.jpg"}

Answer 1

str_replace(array('[', ']'), '', htmlspecialchars(json_encode($result), ENT_NOQUOTES)); ?