PHP and JavaScript handle associative arrays differently.
In JavaScript, you would use an object to achieve what PHP does with associative arrays. The key difference is that objects are not iterable while associative arrays are.
To illustrate the difference:
const data = []; // This is an array
data[10] = {
item: 1
};
console.log(data);
Instead, in JavaScript, it should be handled like this:
const data = {}; // This is an object
data[10] = {
item: 1
};
console.log(data);
When using json_encode()
in PHP to convert associative arrays into JSON, remember that JSON does not support associative arrays either. It would look something like this:
$data = [
'10' => [
'item' => 1
]
];
echo json_encode($data);
// output => { "10": { "item": 1 } }
Take note of the syntax differences between objects and arrays in JavaScript and PHP.