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Reputation: 543

PHP: alternate ways to generate json?

Im working and new how to generate json on arrays in php. is there any alternate ways or best way to generate json on php?

HERE'S MY CODE:

<?php
$array = 
        array(

        'name' =>  

        array(

        'gender'=> 'male-female', 
        'location' => 'adress here'), 

        'age' => 'age here',

        'about me' => array(array(
        'birthday' => 'MM-DD-YYYY', 
        'status' => 'status here', 
        'childrens' => 'childrens here')), 

        'employer' => array('bank','fastfood','sales'), 

        'nameofchildrens' => array(array(
        'name1' => "namehere1" , 'employer2' => array('bank','fastfood','sales'), 
        'name2' => "namehere2" , 'employer1' => array('bank','fastfood','sales'))),

        'relatives' => array(),

        'siblings' => array(),

        'ancestors' => array(),

        'pets' => array(array('dog','cat','rabbit')),

        'sports' => array('basketball','badminton','volleyball'),

        );

echo json_encode($array);
?>

This how I generate a json with format I wanted. It's working but is there anyone can provide me a alternate ways to generate a json format like this?

OUTPUT:

{"name":{"gender":"male-female","location":"adress here"},"age":"age here","about me":[{"birthday":"MM-DD-YYYY","status":"status here","childrens":"childrens here"}],"employer":["bank","fastfood","sales"],"nameofchildrens":[{"name1":"namehere1","employer2":["bank","fastfood","sales"],"name2":"namehere2","employer1":["bank","fastfood","sales"]}],"relatives":[],"siblings":[],"ancestors":[],"pets":[["dog","cat","rabbit"]],"sports":["basketball","badminton","volleyball"]}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 106

Answers (3)

Lutianna
Lutianna

Reputation: 543

I found this way but it doesnt let me to the format I wanted.

<?php
    $obj = new stdClass();
    $obj->metadata = "Devices per year";
    $obj->data = array(
        array('1999','3.0'),
        array('2000','3.9'),
        //and so on...
    );

    echo json_encode($obj);
?>

Upvotes: 1

Karl
Karl

Reputation: 833

You could make a class an run json_encode() on the object.

<?php
class Person {
    public $name;
    public $age;
}
$person = new Person();
$person->name = 'Foo';
$person->age = 22;

echo json_encode($person);

This is in it's simpliest form, so if you havan't read up on classes and objects I suggest you do.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php

Upvotes: 2

Paweł Dziok
Paweł Dziok

Reputation: 81

Many people used Zend_Json before because of common native PHP json errors. But there's no difference at all.

My personal favourite is JMS/Serializer which serializes arrays and objects using metadata maps or using annotations. As long as you have some Entity / DAO representation you can simply define (un)serilalizing schema and just serialize objects or object collections without defining custom arrays.

Documentation: http://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer

Github: https://github.com/schmittjoh/serializer

Upvotes: 0

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