Return JSON from a PHP script

October 3, 2022

To return JSON data from you PHP script you can use json_encode() function. It will convert PHP array to JSON string.

<?php
    // set header
    header('Content-Type: application/json'); 

    // create a php array
    $myarr = [
        [ "id" => 1, "name" => "Math" ],
        [ "id" => 1, "name" => "physics" ],
        [ "id" => 1, "name" => "Chemistry" ]
    ];

    // convert to json and print
    echo json_encode($myarr);
?>

To return JSON from a PHP script you can set its header toÂ 'Content-Type: application/json'.

This will return data in JSON format as your API response.

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