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

Try this function:

function utf8_converter($array)
{
    array_walk_recursive($array, function(&$item, $key){
        if(!mb_detect_encoding($item, 'utf-8', true)){
            $item = utf8_encode($item);
        }
    });

    return $array;
}