I\'m building a PHP script that feeds JSON data to another script. My script builds data into a large associative array, and then outputs the data using json_encode
best way to format JSON data is like this!
header('Content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8');
echo json_encode($response, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);
Replace $response with your Data which is required to be converted to JSON
Have color full output: Tiny Solution
Code:
$s = '{"access": {"token": {"issued_at": "2008-08-16T14:10:31.309353", "expires": "2008-08-17T14:10:31Z", "id": "MIICQgYJKoZIhvcIegeyJpc3N1ZWRfYXQiOiAi"}, "serviceCatalog": [], "user": {"username": "ajay", "roles_links": [], "id": "16452ca89", "roles": [], "name": "ajay"}}}';
$crl = 0;
$ss = false;
echo "<pre>";
for($c=0; $c<strlen($s); $c++)
{
if ( $s[$c] == '}' || $s[$c] == ']' )
{
$crl--;
echo "\n";
echo str_repeat(' ', ($crl*2));
}
if ( $s[$c] == '"' && ($s[$c-1] == ',' || $s[$c-2] == ',') )
{
echo "\n";
echo str_repeat(' ', ($crl*2));
}
if ( $s[$c] == '"' && !$ss )
{
if ( $s[$c-1] == ':' || $s[$c-2] == ':' )
echo '<span style="color:#0000ff;">';
else
echo '<span style="color:#ff0000;">';
}
echo $s[$c];
if ( $s[$c] == '"' && $ss )
echo '</span>';
if ( $s[$c] == '"' )
$ss = !$ss;
if ( $s[$c] == '{' || $s[$c] == '[' )
{
$crl++;
echo "\n";
echo str_repeat(' ', ($crl*2));
}
}
echo $s[$c];
Use <pre>
in combination with json_encode()
and the JSON_PRETTY_PRINT
option:
<pre>
<?php
echo json_encode($dataArray, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
?>
</pre>
If you have existing JSON ($ugly_json
)
echo nl2br(str_replace(' ', ' ', (json_encode(json_decode($ugly_json), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES))));
You could do it like below.
$array = array(
"a" => "apple",
"b" => "banana",
"c" => "catnip"
);
foreach ($array as $a_key => $a_val) {
$json .= "\"{$a_key}\" : \"{$a_val}\",\n";
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo "{\n" .rtrim($json, ",\n") . "\n}";
Above would output kind of like Facebook.
{
"a" : "apple",
"b" : "banana",
"c" : "catnip"
}
The following is what worked for me:
Contents of test.php:
<html>
<body>
Testing JSON array output
<pre>
<?php
$data = array('a'=>'apple', 'b'=>'banana', 'c'=>'catnip');
// encode in json format
$data = json_encode($data);
// json as single line
echo "</br>Json as single line </br>";
echo $data;
// json as an array, formatted nicely
echo "</br>Json as multiline array </br>";
print_r(json_decode($data, true));
?>
</pre>
</body>
</html>
output:
Testing JSON array output
Json as single line
{"a":"apple","b":"banana","c":"catnip"}
Json as multiline array
Array
(
[a] => apple
[b] => banana
[c] => catnip
)
Also note the use of "pre" tag in html.
Hope that helps someone