Is there a way to pass multiple arrays to PHP json_encode and parse it with jQuery?

Question

Right now I have this PHP:

$columns = array(*/Data*/);
echo json_encode($columns);

And this is sent through an AJAX GET request with JQuery

Answer 1

Sure, you could send an array of array. PHP associative array will become a javascript object.

In PHP:

$data = array();
$data['fruits'] = array('apple','banana','cherry');
$data['animals'] = array('dog', 'elephant');
echo json_encode($data);

and then on jQuery

var data = jQuery.parseJSON(response);

then you could then do something like this to access the values

console.log(data.fruits[0]); // apple
console.log(data.animals[1]); // elephant