I have an array as,
either
eight
einstein
eighth
When I convert it to json using json_encode I get the below output,
["either","eight","einstein","eighth"]
But I would like to have a structure like below
[
{"name":"either"},
{"name":"eight"},
{"name":"einstein"},
{"name":"eighth"}
]
How to get such a json? is there any function in php to achieve this functionality?
You just massage the array a little with array_map before converting it. You want to go from this structure (in PHP terms):
[
"either",
"eight",
"einstein",
"eighth"
]
to this:
[
["name" => "either"],
["name" => "eight"],
["name" => "einstein"],
["name" => "eighth"],
]
Once you know what must be done, doing it is easy:
$arr = ["either","eight","einstein","eighth"];
$arr = array_map(function($v) { return ['name' => $v]; }, $arr);
echo json_encode($arr);
You can't redefine array keys like that, it would be an object in JavaScript by the way, but you can have a name array with those children:
<?php
$array = array(
"name" => array(
"either",
"eight",
"einstein",
"eighth"
)
);
Echo json_encode($array);
?>
Demo: https://eval.in/68295
Or, each line could be its own array with name keys.
