How to make correct json output?

Question

PHP

Through foreach, I iterate and insert data into the array:

foreach ($banners as $key => $id) {
$banner = Banner::where('id', $id)->first();
                $this->data[$key] = array(
                    'id' => $banner->id,
                    'url' => $banner->url,
                    'name' => $banner->name,
                    'image' => $banner->image
                );
}

with json_encode($this->data) I get:

spoiler

why json strings in [...]?

Answer 1

Tryjson_encode($this->data, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT);

Answer 2

You are this:

array(
                    'id' => $banner->id,
                    'url' => $banner->url,
                    'name' => $banner->name,
                    'image' => $banner->image
                );

You put in $this->data by the key $key, it follows that $this->data is an array, so it is decoded in brackets [].