application/json php code example

Example 1: php change header to json

<?PHP
$data = /** whatever you're serializing **/;
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($data);

Example 2: send application/json php

// API URL
$url = 'http://www.example.com/api';

// Create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init($url);

// Setup request to send json via POST
$data = array(
  'username' => 'codexworld',
  'password' => '123456');
$payload = json_encode(array("user" => $data));

// Attach encoded JSON string to the POST fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);

// Set the content type to application/json
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));

// Return response instead of outputting
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Execute the POST request
$result = curl_exec($ch);

// Close cURL resource
curl_close($ch);

Example 3: php json_encode header detail

$array = array();

$array['Name'] = 'Alex';
$array['Age'] = 37;
$array['Admin'] = TRUE;

$array['Contact'] = array
(
  'Site' => "alexwebdevelop.com",
  'Phone' => 123456789,
  'Address' => NULL
);

$array['Tags'] = array('php', 'web', 'dev');

$json = json_encode($array, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

echo '<pre>';
echo $json;
echo '</pre>';