deleting JSON array element in PHP, and re-encoding as JSON

Question

function deleteNews($selected) {
    $file = file_get_contents(\'news.json\', true);

    $data=json_decode($file,true);
    unset($file);

foreach($selected as $ind         


        

Answer 1

Try it with array_values:

$result = json_encode(array_values($data));