I've seen multiple answers in here but none of them had a solution to my question, so I made an account to ask this question. I understand now that `\n` is not an allowed character in json because the backslash is not allowed and that's why the problem is occurring.

I have the following code to encode an array in json:

```
<?php
$data = array('test1' => 'something1', 'test2' => 'something2', 'test3' => 'something3');
echo json_encode($data);

```

I'm trying to have the string outputted as follows:

> 
> {
> 
> 
> "test1": "something1",
> 
> 
> "test2": "something2",
> 
> 
> "test3": "something3"
> 
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 

But what I'm getting is this:

> 
> {"test1":"something1","test2":"something2","test3":"something3"}
> 
> 
> 

This is my go at it:

```
<?php
$data = array('test1' => 'something1\n', 'test2' => 'something2\n', 'test3' => 'something3\n');
echo json_encode($data);

```

but this returns

> 
> {"test1":"something1\n","test2":"something2\n","test3":"something3\n"}
> 
> 
>