I’ve never used JSON before and I’m trying to utilize the following javascript:
http://jqueryselectcombo.googlecode.com/files/jquery.selectCombo1.2.6.js
It needs a JSON output in the following format:
[{oV: 'myfirstvalue', oT: 'myfirsttext'},
{oV: 'mysecondvalue', oT: 'mysecondtext'}]
Could you guide me to an example on how to generate a JSON output as above, using PHP?
The simplest way would probably be to start with an associative array of the pairs you want:
$data = array("myfirstvalue" => "myfirsttext", "mysecondvalue" => "mysecondtext");
then use a foreach and some string concatenation:
$jsontext = "[";
foreach($data as $key => $value) {
$jsontext .= "{oV: '".addslashes($key)."', oT: '".addslashes($value)."'},";
}
$jsontext = substr_replace($jsontext, '', -1); // to get rid of extra comma
$jsontext .= "]";
Or if you have a recent version of PHP, you can use the json encoding functions built in – just be careful what data you pass them to make it match the expected format.
Answer:
Once you have your PHP data, you can use the json_encode
function ; it’s bundled with PHP since PHP 5.2
In your case you JSON string represents :
- a list containing 2 elements
- each one being an object, containing 2 properties / values
In PHP, this would create the structure you are representing :
$data = array(
(object)array(
'oV' => 'myfirstvalue',
'oT' => 'myfirsttext',
),
(object)array(
'oV' => 'mysecondvalue',
'oT' => 'mysecondtext',
),
);
var_dump($data);
The var_dump
gets you :
array
0 =>
object(stdClass)[1]
public 'oV' => string 'myfirstvalue' (length=12)
public 'oT' => string 'myfirsttext' (length=11)
1 =>
object(stdClass)[2]
public 'oV' => string 'mysecondvalue' (length=13)
public 'oT' => string 'mysecondtext' (length=12)
And, encoding it to JSON :
$json = json_encode($data);
echo $json;
You get :
[{"oV":"myfirstvalue","oT":"myfirsttext"},{"oV":"mysecondvalue","oT":"mysecondtext"}]
BTW : Frolm what I remember, I’d say your JSON string is not valid-JSON data : there should be double-quotes arround the string, including the names of the objects properties
See http://www.json.org/ for the grammar.
Hope this helps 🙂
Answer:
This should be helpful: Generating JSON
Answer:
This is the php code to generate json format
<?php
$catId = $_GET['catId'];
$catId = $_POST['catId'];
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","DBName");
if(!$conn)
{
trigger_error('Could not Connect' .mysqli_connect_error());
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM TableName";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
$array = array();
while($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$array[] = $row;
}
echo'{"ProductsData":'.json_encode($array).'}'; //Here ProductsData is just a simple String u can write anything instead
mysqli_close('$conn');
?>
Answer:
You can use the stdClass, add the properties and json_encode the object.
$object = new stdClass();
$object->first_property = 1;
$object->second_property = 2;
echo '<pre>';var_dump( json_encode($object) , $object );die;
Voilà!
string(40) "{"first_property":1,"second_property":2}"
object(stdClass)#43 (2) {
["first_property"]=>
int(1)
["second_property"]=>
int(2)
}