Add PHP string value to JSON array - php

Question

I got this:
$arr = json_decode($arr, TRUE);
while($row){
// $arr[] = ['id' => '8', 'name' => 'mickey'];
$test = $row->TCI_LIBELLE;
$arr[] = ['id' => $row->TCI_ID, 'name' => $row->TCI_LIBELLE];
$i +=1;
$row = $reqCentreInteret->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
$json = json_encode($arr);
If you don't understand I'm trying to put values I get from a Select SQL query into a JSON array.
The problem is that it does't work like I want.
Indeed it works with my id because in my database it's an int value, but it does't work for the name because it is a varchar value
This is what i want to obtain :
[{"id":"8","name":"mickey"},{"id":"8","name":"mickey"}]
And here 'mickey' will be replaced by the value of my php string that will be initialized by my sql query
I already tried to solve my problem using
'name' => '" .$row->TCI_LIBELLE."'
But it does't work
How can I pass string value (or other type) to my JSON array?
I'm using PHP and JSON to send value from MySQL to an Android app.

Answer 1

arr[] = adds a new row to the array, i.e. a new top-level element.
You probably want to add your data to the existing element
Let's say your arr initially is something like
[ 'property1' => 'value1',
'property2' => 'value2'
...]
when you're doing
arr[] = ['id'=> 8,'name' => 'mickey']
your array will now contain 2 top level elements and look like
[[ 'property1' => 'value1',
'property2' => 'value2'
...
],
[ 'id' => 8,
'name' => 'mickey'
]
]
you may want to do this instead
arr['id'] = $row->TCI_ID;
arr['name'] = $row->TCI_LIBELLE;
then your arr will look like this:
[ 'property1' => 'value1',
'property2' => 'value2'
'id' => 8
'name' => 'mickey'
...
]

Answer 2

Finally this is what is had to do
$stmt = $db->query("SELECT TCI_ID AS id, TCI_LIBELLE AS nom FROM
OSO_DEV.T_CENTRE_INTERET");
echo json_encode($stmt->fetchAll(PDO:: FETCH_ASSOC),JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);