Return JSON response via PHP

Question

How to return the following response?

Should return on success:

{ status : "ok", data :
  [ { franchisor_no : <franchisor number>
    , franchisor_status : uncollected | active | delivered | returned | exception
  , events_list:
    [ { date: <date>, status : uncollected | active | delivered | returned | exception
       , description: <optional description>
       , code: <optional code, may map to the defined franchisor codes>
       , location: <optional location, such as city or hub>.
       ... raw_event: <the original event as received from the franchisor API. mandatory
... } ] } .... ] }

I'm using this code, but no response is being sent to my server. Please tell me if there is any error in this code?

<?php
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"));

echo json_encode = [
    "status" => "ok",
    "data" => [
        [
            "franchisor_no" => "1210110080",
            "franchisor_status" => "exception",
            "events_list" => [
                [
                    "date" => "30-07-2023",
                    "status" => "exception",
                    "description" => "optional",
                    "code" => "optional",
                    "location" => "optional",
                    "raw_event" => "mandatory"
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
];

Answer 1

This should be

echo json_encode([
"status" => "ok",
"data" => [
    [
        "franchisor_no" => "1210110080",
        "franchisor_status" => "exception",
        "events_list" => [
            [
                "date" => "30-07-2023",
                "status" => "exception",
                "description" => "optional",
                "code" => "optional",
                "location" => "optional",
                "raw_event" => "mandatory"
            ],
        ],
    ],
]]);

You did not call the json_encode() function. You just put an equal sign in front of it.