Convert arrays into UTF-8 ? PHP JSON

Question

i have multidimensional arrays generated by PHP with data from database ,but i have chars like \"č ć š đ ž\" and when i try to output that in json he just returns null , i d

Answer 1

I've found iconv to be the best method of converting a character set to UTF-8. You can make use of PHP's array_walk_recursive to work with multidimensional arrays:

$array = array(); // This is your multidimensional array

array_walk_recursive($array, function(&$value, $key) {
    if (is_string($value)) {
        $value = iconv('windows-1252', 'utf-8', $value);
    }
});

You can change windows-1252 to whichever character set you're converting from.