deleting JSON array element in PHP, and re-encoding as JSON

Question

function deleteNews($selected) {
    $file = file_get_contents(\'news.json\', true);

    $data=json_decode($file,true);
    unset($file);

foreach($selected as $ind         


        

Answer 1

function deleteNews($selected) { $file = file_get_contents('news.json', true);

$data=json_decode($file,true);
unset($file);

foreach($selected as $index){
  unset($data[$index]);
}

foreach($data as $value){
  $new_data[] = $value;
}

$result=json_encode($new_data);

file_put_contents('news.json', $result);
echo $result;
unset($result);
$url="./deleteNews.php";

//redirect($url); }