This is the first of 21 posts in my “PHP Function of the day” series. These are going to be quicker posts, for the most part. Maybe I should do it with other languages after this? 🙂
For today, let’s look at json_encode().
<?php
$joe = array(“First_Name”=>”Joe”, “Last_Name”=>”Steinbring”, “Website”=>”jws.dev”);
echo ‘The Array: <br />’;
echo $joe;
echo ‘<br /><br />The JSON: <br />’;
echo json_encode($joe);
?>
So, What does json_encode() do? It takes a value of your choosing and encodes it as JSON.