Question

I want to return multiple responses from PHP to my Android device.
In PHP I have something like:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($data)) {
    $response["post"] = strip_tags($row["post_text"]);
    $response["date"] = date('D M d, Y', $row["post_time"]);
    echo json_encode($response);
}

In Logcat I get:

{“tag”:”midnightAnnouncements”,”success”:1,”error”:0,”post”:”This is a test announcement! “,”date”:”Sun Oct 21, 2012″}{“tag”:”midnightAnnouncements”,”success”:1,”error”:0,”post”:”Here is another “,”date”:”Sun Oct 21, 2012″}n

These are the results of two rows. I’d like to iterate over the JSON object and get the strings for both “post”s. How can this be done in Java?

Answer 1

You can wrap the output in a JSON array:

$output = array();

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($data)) {
    $response["post"] = strip_tags($row["post_text"]);
    $response["date"] = date('D M d, Y', $row["post_time"]);

    $output[] = $response;
}
echo json_encode($output);