Laravel 4 JSON Output formatting

Question

return Response::json(array(
    'status' => 200,
    'posts' => $post->toArray()
), 200);

Using the code above I returned data in json format.
I have seen other api's that return json giving it back in formatted view.
Like:

http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp/v0002/?appid=440&count=3&maxlength=300&format=json

But mine is returning it in one line. How do I generate the json in a formatted way with laravel?

update

I cannot test the code yet until I tomorrow. So I'll accept the answer tom.

But this is the api

http://laravel.com/api/class-Illuminate.Support.Facades.Response.html

and the parameters are,

$data
$status
$headers

update

Actually I modified the response class of illuminate to have that constant.

you have solutions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6054033/pretty-printing-json-with-php — Amir Bar, Dec 19 '13 at 10:18

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '14 at 18:52

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It is possible in current 4.2 version.

Response::json($data=[], $status=200, $headers=[], $options=JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

https://github.com/laravel/framework/commit/417f539803ce96eeab7b420d8b03f04959a603e9

answered Sep 19 '14 at 18:52

Travis Miller

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Amal Murali · Answer 2 · 2013-12-19T10:31:09.103

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I don't think Laravel allows you to format the JSON output. However, you can do it using json_encode()'s JSON_PRETTY_PRINT constant (available since PHP 5.4.0). Here's how:

$array = array(
    'status' => 200,
    'posts' => $post->toArray()
);

return json_encode($array, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

edited Dec 19 '13 at 10:31

answered Dec 19 '13 at 10:19

Amal Murali

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Why first making a response and then decode and encode again? The variant by @XoneFobic is better. – Reflic Dec 19 '13 at 10:25
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@Reflic: Definitely needs moar coffee. Updated the post, thanks :) – Amal Murali Dec 19 '13 at 10:31

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '14 at 00:19

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The same answer but with the json content-type (like the example in the question):

return Response::make(json_encode(array(
    'status' => 200,
    'posts' => $post->toArray()
), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT))->header('Content-Type', "application/json");

answered May 18 '14 at 00:19

Nuno Rafael Figueiredo

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 19 '13 at 10:22

This is (to my knowledge) a server-side setting. Like xDebug will format it like that (also colours it).

By default, JSON is a single string. And isn't related to Laravel or any other framework.

If you're using PHP 5.4+ You could use JSON_PRETTY_PRINT

return json_encode(array(
    'status' => 200,
    'posts' => $post->toArray()
), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

Untested and you could look in Laravel api if it's possible to use Response::json() for it.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 05 '16 at 13:50

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In Laravel 5.2 you can use a similar approach using the helpers

return response()->json($data=[], $status=200, $headers=[], $options=JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)

answered Jul 05 '16 at 13:50

Giovanne Afonso

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Laravel 4 JSON Output formatting

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