json_encode json_decode php examples
json_encode used when PHP retrieve data and convert Array() to [] !!!! $arr = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3, 'd' => 4, 'e' => 5); echo json_encode($arr); //output {"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5} access from js file data.a, data.b,data.c... ---------------------------------------------- $json = '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}'; json_decode($json, true); //true turns object to associative array; //output array(5) { ["a"] => int(1) ["b"] => int(2) ["c"] => int(3) ["d"] => int(4) ["e"] => int(5) }