Array to JSON conversion not working in PHP

Question

code not working

$data['price']='1ドル';
print_r(json_encode($data));

result is

{"price":"null"}

i need result like

{"price":"1ドル"}

• Rukmi Patel: you are not encoding same array .. check your code..
• Sindhara: try replacing £ with £ Seems like an
• Ali: Related: stackoverflow.com/questions/3694346/…
• iDhaval: by mistek i have writen $dat i have done $data in my code still its not working
• Sindhara: it's a charset problem ;) just transform the special char to a html entity. it's no nice solution but may be the one with the less work

Answer 1

Try this :

$data['price']='£1';
print_r(json_encode($data));

• Ben: shouldn't it be £1 technically?
• Darshit Gajjar: @Ben yes, it should be. As i have tried without ';' I got the same result.. so I think it's not necessary :) thnk you tho

Answer 2

You are not encoding same array.. you are storing value in $dat and encoding $data....

check your code ..

• Ali: He's getting the print_r correctly so he must've made a typo posting his code here

Answer 3

I am afraid you cannot encode £ to JSON unfortunately. You can try £ in it's place and it will work.

Answer 4

Try this

$data['price'] = htmlentities('1ドル', ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8');

Answer 5

Try like this:

$data['price']="1ドル";
print_r(json_encode($data));

My result:

{"price":"1ドル"}

• Darvex: He wants the pound sign, not dollar sign
• Hataru: sure but i don't have pound on my keyboard :)
• Ben: @Hataru that's kind of a dumb reply then since $ is on the ascii table and doesn't cause any utf8 json encoding issue..
• Hataru: yes i try now with pound and of course he needs &pound ... thanks