PHP Array to json formatting

Question

I'm trying to get my PHP arrays to format in the way I need them to.

Here's what the outcome is:

 [
 {
 "Ryan": {
 "id": "5c7c9ef16f667",
 "quantity": "1"
 }
 },
 {
 "Paul": {
 "id": "5c7d888e14233",
 "quantity": "2"
 }
 }
]

Here's what my desired outcome is:

{
 "Ryan": {
 "id": "5c7c9ef16f667",
 "quantity": "as"
 },
 "Paul": {
 "id": "5c7d888e14233",
 "quantity": "asd"
 }
}

And here's my code:

$tools = array();
foreach ($tool_names as $key=>$value) {
 $item = Item::find_by_name($value);
 $tools[] = array($item['name'] => ["id" => $item['id'], "quantity" => $tool_quantities[$key]]);
}
json_encode($tools);

Any ideas for how I can change my code to make my array work like that?

• Anurag Srivastava: You are creating an array of objects which you must convert to an object. This answer may help - stackoverflow.com/questions/19874555/…

Answer 1

You need to mutate your main array rather than pushing new arrays into it:

$tools = array();
foreach ($tool_names as $key=>$value) {
 $item = Item::find_by_name($value);
 $tools[$item['name']] = array("id" => $item['id'], "quantity" => $tool_quantities[$key]);
}
json_encode($tools);

• Jertyu: Thank you! I thought I might have needed to do something like that but I wasn't sure exactly how to do it... I will accept your answer once I am able to.