Question

I have an array that I am creating from a MySql database and encoding in json.

$data_array = array();
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
         $data_array[$row['city']] = $row['state']; 
}

 echo json_encode($data_array);

As expected, it is outputting this:

{"DALLAS":"WV","DALLAS CENTER":"IA","DALLAS CITY":"IL","DALLASTOWN":"PA","LAKE DALLAS":"TX"}

I need the json data to look like this:

{"DALLAS, WV","DALLAS CENTER, IA","DALLAS CITY, IL","DALLASTOWN, PA","LAKE DALLAS, TX"}

I can’t seem to find the correct answer to this anywhere on Stack Overflow, so I apologize in advance if this is a repeat question. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Instead of this, as a key-value pair

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  $data_array[$row['city']] = $row['state']; 
}

Generate it like this

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  $data_array[] = $row['city'].",".$row['state']; 
}