How to to create groups of php arrays encoded as json and return each group by name

Question

is this possible? i want to return name and type of a car, in one json element.

The normal way is this,

{
    $return = array ('label' => $row['name'],
    'Type' => $row['Type'],

    );
}
echo json_encode($return);

But i want something like this so i can just call "NameType",

$return = array ('NameType' => $row['Name', 'Type'],
    );

the above should normally be like this.

I know my syntax is wrong.

$return = array ('NameType' => array($row['Name'], $row['Type'])); ? — geomagas
– geomagas, Commented Nov 5, 2013 at 10:29

Jonathan Muller · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-05 10:36:32Z

1

I don't understood well the question, but you can do

$return = array ('NameType' => $row['Name']." ".$row['Type']);

or

$return = array ('NameType' => array($row['Name'], $row['Type']));

Don't know exactly what you want to do

answered Nov 5, 2013 at 10:29

Jonathan Muller

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2 Comments

yes the first one is correct, Just that it returns the values without space in between.

Then just $row['Name']." ".$row['Type'] to add space between the two. I edited my answer to fit your comment