PHP - Change values in array result - php

Question

I have part of a code:
$array = (json_encode($data, true));
which gives me a result of:
"["Id\tFirstName\tLastName\tDateOfBirth\tPhone\tAddress1\tAddress2\tCity\tState\tPostCode\tCountry\tEmail"]"
I need to post it in a filed of a database but it looks harder to view and read.
I would want to get result like
"{Id, FirstName , LastName, DateOfBirth, ...}"
It tried some functions like array_implode, array_replace but no success.
My $data content:
array:1 [
0 => "Id\tFirstName\tLastName\tDateOfBirth\tPhone\tAddress1\tAddress2\tCity\tState\tPostCode\tCountry\tEmail"
1 => "Id\tAnna\tGreen\t199/12/12\t25413698\tMemoryLane\t..."
]
What can I try?

Answer 1

1.if you want results to be array of json strings
$results = [];
foreach($data as $dat){
$results[] = json_encode(explode("\t", $dat));
}
var_dump($results);
2.if you want all results to be json string
$results = [];
foreach($data as $dat){
$results[] = explode("\t", $dat);
}
var_dump(json_encode($results));
Old answer -> Before encoding, explode first value od array (string) by '\t' and after that encode array.
$data = explode("\t", $data[0]);
$results = json_encode($data);

Answer 2

// Example data
$data = array(
"Id\tFirstName\tLastName\tDateOfBirth\tPhone\tAddress1\tAddress2\tCity\tState\tPostCode\tCountry\tEmail",
"May\tBe\tMore\tLines\tHere"
);
// Processing
$a = $data;
// Change all \t to comma and put { } around in each item
array_walk($a, function(&$item) { $item = '{ ' .str_replace("\t", ', ', $item) . ' }'; });
// combine all items into a line
$result = implode(', ', $a);
print($result);
// { Id, FirstName, LastName, DateOfBirth, Phone, Address1, Address2, City, State, PostCode, Country, Email }, { May, Be, More, Lines, Here }