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?

You are creating an array of objects which you must convert to an object. This answer may help - stackoverflow.com/questions/19874555/… — Anurag Srivastava
– Anurag Srivastava, Commented Mar 4, 2019 at 22:44

scrowler · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-04 22:44:06Z

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);

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.

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