Question

I have written a script to query a mysql database and encode the data in json format.

I have added $encoded = json_encode($encodable[0]); which removes the other [ ] brackets but then only displays 1 record. Is there a way to still remove those brackets but display for example every record that I am querying?

Sorry not sure how to describe the problem in a better way!

Answer 1

Encode the result set of the query as JSON? Or encode data that is being sent to the database??

$encodeable[0] is the first element of the array, so its clear that that is what will be encoded. Depending on the format of your data, encodeable[0] would be [{"key":"value"},{"key":"value"},{"key":"value"}] by default as thats an indexed array with keys of 0,1,2…

If your goal is to just output the json as a JS object {}, instead of an array [] you can use json_encode($array, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT); which will encode indexed arrays as {"0":"value"} or {"0":{"0":"value"}} instead of just ["value"] or [["value"]]. If that’s not what you’re after, you may just need to loop through each encodeable element of your array and encode that way (use a for loop)

http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php