Question

In my Android application I make a HTTP POST connection:

serverresponse = CustomHttpClient.executeHttpPost(url, postParameters);

All working fine. The url is pointing to a php page on my server. It echos an array of image urls in JSON format like this:

[".\/pictures\/q\/thumbnails\/28052011172.jpg",".\/pictures\/q\/thumbnails\/picca1.jpg",".\/pictures\/q\/thumbnails\/lockscreen_006.jpg"]

What I want to do is also echo the size of directory. That works fine too, but that puts it right after the JSON array, like so:

echo (json_encode($files));
echo (filesize_r($path));

[".\/pictures\/q\/thumbnails\/28052011172.jpg",".\/pictures\/q\/thumbnails\/picca1.jpg",".\/pictures\/q\/thumbnails\/lockscreen_006.jpg"]4223566

4223566 is the number of bytes. In my application I want to split these two values into different strings so I can use them.

In short, I want to separate these two php echos. I don’t want to make two separate HTTP connections for both of them.

Sorry if my question isn’t clear enough, I sometimes have a hard time explaining stuff in English.

Answer 1

Could you not just make one json object which contains the two values your require?

e.g.

$response = array(
    'pictures'=>$files,
    'filesize'=> filesize_r($path)
);
echo json_encode($response);