Converting special characters { } into Json from Php

Question

i am trying to create the json code below using php but putting curly braces in an array produces an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in >/opt/lampp/htdocs/bulksms.php on line 23

 {

"properties": {
        "delivery_mode": 1,
        "headers": {}
    },

"headers": {},
"props": {},

}

Is there a way i can escape these characters (the curly braces) without putting them in a string. Below is the php code that i have so far.

$jsonData = array(
      'properties' =>  array(
          'delivery_mode' => 1,
          'headers' => {}
        ),

      'headers' => {},
      'props' => {},
    );

You are mixing syntaxes of different languages. In php you need something like `'headers' => []` or `'headers' => new stdClass()`, etc. — jeroen, Mar 28 '17 at 08:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '17 at 08:34

PHP code demo

$jsonData = array(
      'properties' =>  array(
          'delivery_mode' => 1,
          'headers' => (object) array()
        ),

      'headers' => (object) array(),
      'props' => (object) array(),
    );
print_r(json_encode($jsonData));

Output:

{
    "properties": {
        "delivery_mode": 1,
        "headers": {}
    },
    "headers": {},
    "props": {}
}

Converting special characters { } into Json from Php

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