PHP Array to Javascript Object no array after console.log -

now there plenty of people same issue , resolutions have not worked.

problem

i have list of times coming rest call. created should, except want them stored javascript array.

php

    function getopenappts()  {     global $wpdb;     $final_array = "";     $td = date('m/d/y');     $datetime = new datetime('tomorrow');     $tm = $datetime->format('y-m-d');     $startdate = $td;     $enddate = $tm;     $appttypeid = "23";     $get_loc = $wpdb->get_results('select provid,id location');     foreach($get_loc $val){     // call athena open appointments         $res = getopenappointments($val->id, $val->provid, $startdate, $enddate, $appttypeid);         //print_r($res);          // if got appointments strip started before         if (array_key_exists('totalcount', $res) && $res['appointments'] > 0)         {             $tzstr = "america/los_angeles";             $tzobject = new datetimezone($tzstr);             $nowdt = new datetime();             $nowdt->settimezone($tzobject);             //print_r($nowdt);             //print_r("\n");             $appts = array();             ($i = 0; $i < count($res['appointments']); $i++)             {                 $apptdt = new datetime($res['appointments'][$i]['date']." ".$res['appointments'][$i]['starttime'], $tzobject);                 //print_r($apptdt);                 //print_r("\n");                 if ($nowdt < $apptdt)                     $appts[] = $res['appointments'][$i];             }         }          if (count($appts) > 0)             foreach($appts $data) {                 $final_array[] = $data;         }          else             $res; // went wrong. return error message     }     echo json_encode($final_array); } 

header.php

<script>     var times = <?php getopenappts(); ?>;     console.log(times); //will display </script> 

how should come back!

but.. when run console on variable times (which in header making global variable. this.

it should give me exact same list console.log gave me.

what have tried

i ran:

parse.json(times); 

no effect...

i did in php:

json_encode(json_decode($appts),true); 

no effect...

what part of process incorrect?

you using time global variable.

since console.log right after declaration prints fine, overriding value somewhere after.

avoid can global variables, they're evil :)