Question

Im using D3 to make some charts

Manually forming a json for each query seems a bit counter intuitive

Is there a better way to do this?

Or is it to make a json php script for each chart and try to get my data to fit or can I get a generic php script to configure the outputted json from sql?

Answer 1

What’s so hard about it?

$sql = "SELECT field1, field2, field3, ....";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$data = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $data[] = $row;
}
echo json_encode($data);  // <--- was that so hard?