php json_encode returning null

Question

Array
(
    [sEcho] => 1
    [iTotalRecords] => 7521
    [iTotalDisplayRecords] => 1
    [aaData] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                 


        

Answer 1

The simpler way is $store_name = utf8_encode(name_of_varaible) but please make sure that your character set is ISO-8859-1.