JSON encode MySQL results

How do I use the json_encode() function with MySQL query results? Do I need to iterate through the rows or can I just apply it to the entire results object?

Solution 1:

$sth = mysqli_query($conn, "SELECT ...");
$rows = array();
while($r = mysqli_fetch_assoc($sth)) {
    $rows[] = $r;
}
print json_encode($rows);

The function json_encode needs PHP >= 5.2 and the php-json package - as mentioned here

NOTE: mysql is deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0, use mysqli extension instead http://php.net/manual/en/migration55.deprecated.php.

Solution 2:

Try this, this will create your object properly

 $result = mysql_query("SELECT ...");
 $rows = array();
   while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
     $rows['object_name'][] = $r;
   }

 print json_encode($rows);

Solution 3:

http://www.php.net/mysql_query says "mysql_query() returns a resource".

http://www.php.net/json_encode says it can encode any value "except a resource".

You need to iterate through and collect the database results in an array, then json_encode the array.

Solution 4:

Thanks.. my answer goes:

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
            # code...
            $arr = [];
            $inc = 0;
            while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                # code...
                $jsonArrayObject = (array('lat' => $row["lat"], 'lon' => $row["lon"], 'addr' => $row["address"]));
                $arr[$inc] = $jsonArrayObject;
                $inc++;
            }
            $json_array = json_encode($arr);
            echo $json_array;
        }
        else{
            echo "0 results";
        }

Solution 5:

The code below works fine here!

<?php

  $con=mysqli_connect("localhost",$username,$password,databaseName);

  // Check connection
  if (mysqli_connect_errno())
  {
   echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
  }

  $query = "the query here";

  $result = mysqli_query($con,$query);

  $rows = array();
  while($r = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    $rows[] = $r;
  }
  echo json_encode($rows);

  mysqli_close($con);
?>