[FX.php List] JSON help

Blair Duncan Blair.Duncan at bbdo.ca
Wed Jan 14 19:55:08 MST 2009


>From a lurker...

Usually I would sit on my hands rather than replying with a wiseass remarks
such as "and this has something to do with FX/PHP in what way???" as it is
more of a php question.

But then I click on the link and think, wow another cool thing that I may be
able to use someday. Good people on this list, thanks.


On 14/01/09 9:38 PM, "david weiner" <1265 at lucerneblvd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> If anyone on the list has any experience getting FX/PHP to output JSON
> encoded data (using json_encode) - I'd like to hear from about it.
>
> I'm looking to get filemaker data into JSON for a few reasons,
> primarily all chart related, and am struggling a little with the PHP.
> For one example I'm trying to achieve an array that looks like:
>
> [2006-11-01] => Array
>         (
>             [count] => 10
>             [tags] => Array
>                 (
>                     [web] => 1
>                     [search] => 1
>                     [chinese] => 1
>                     [food] => 1
>                     [tomatoes] => 1
>                     [bread] => 1
>                     [restaurants] => 1
>                     [japanese] => 1
>                     [coffee] => 1
>                 )
>
>         )
>
> where [2006-11-01] = [parent_date]
> [count] = field[number_of_children_for_parent_date] (portal rows)
> [tags] => Array ( ... ) is a loop grabbing all the comma separated
> field contents from each portal row for the parent date.
>
> The ultimate goal is produce a timecloud using jQuery
> (http://wiki.github.com/stef/timecloud), but I think if I can get this
> figured out, then extending FX to feed all kinds of JSON driven data
> visualizers _should_ be doable.
>
> I've got some very rough code adapted from the timecloud delicious
> sample data and would be happy to share it, but it's basically not
> working so I'm leaving it off for now.
>
> thanks,
> David
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