newline in json_encode() output - php

Question

I am building an output array like so
if (count($errors)) {
$success = 'false';
$output['json_msg'] = "Please try your submission again.";
$output['errors'] = $errors;
} else {
$success = 'true';
$output['json_msg'] = "Thanks for Becoming a NOLA Insider!";
}
$output['success'] = $success;
header('Content-type:application/json;charset=utf-8');
if (count($errors)) { http_response_code(500); }
echo json_encode($output);
exit;
But when I look at the response in Chrome's Network pane of the developer tools I see what appears to be a newline in response:
I tried wrapping json_encode() in trim() but this gave garbled output.
How do I eliminate the carriage return?

Answer 1

You can try to remove new line using str_replace
$output = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"),'',$output);
echo json_encode($output);

Answer 2

Do you have a ?> at the end of your PHP file and what's happening when you remove it ?
Because you may have a carriage return at the end of the script which may be sent before your response :
?>\n
// END OF FILE
This is explained by the fact that PHP is actually a templating language :
Here is a file which defines a function and which displays a text :
<?php
/**
* #File lib.php
*/
function sayHello()
{
echo "hello";
}
?>
forgotten text
And here is a file that includes this file.
<?php
/**
* #file index.php
*/
include_once('lib.php');
sayHello();
This will output :
forgotten text
hello
The "forgotten text" is output when the lib.php file is included whereas the "hello" is output after.
(But it may be even simpler and just the point that #nanocv suggested)

Answer 3

If you are getting the new line characters like \r\n to your json code after json_encode() you can follow up the method with the final json_value that you get. This will remove up all the new lines that has been output-ed from the code that you obtain after you perform the json_encode().
Hence you need to preg_replace() the json outputed value as follows which will remove uo the new lines from the json_code.
This will replace the new lines with no value over to the second parameter in preg_replace().
Try not to provide any white spaced between the php codes (i.e) Opening and Closing Codes that you process either at the beginning or at the end of the document. This may cause the issue sometimes.
Code:
$output_json = preg_replace("!\r?\n!","", $output_json);

Answer 4

I bet your php code starts this way:
1. <--- Note the blank line here
2. <?php
That's a new line character that will became part of the result.
(This way I could recreate the same behavior)

Answer 5

I solved by removing spaces from the php file indicated in the include .