Append data to a .JSON file with PHP

This has taken the above c example and moved it over to php. This will jump to the end of the file and add the new data in without reading all the file into memory.

// read the file if present
$handle = @fopen($filename, 'r+');

// create the file if needed
if ($handle === null)
{
    $handle = fopen($filename, 'w+');
}

if ($handle)
{
    // seek to the end
    fseek($handle, 0, SEEK_END);

    // are we at the end of is the file empty
    if (ftell($handle) > 0)
    {
        // move back a byte
        fseek($handle, -1, SEEK_END);

        // add the trailing comma
        fwrite($handle, ',', 1);

        // add the new json string
        fwrite($handle, json_encode($event) . ']');
    }
    else
    {
        // write the first event inside an array
        fwrite($handle, json_encode(array($event)));
    }

        // close the handle on the file
        fclose($handle);
}

$data[] = $_POST['data'];

$inp = file_get_contents('results.json');
$tempArray = json_decode($inp);
array_push($tempArray, $data);
$jsonData = json_encode($tempArray);
file_put_contents('results.json', $jsonData);

You're ruining your json data by blindly appending text to it. JSON is not a format that can be manipulated like this.

You'll have to load your json text, decode it, manipulate the resulting data structure, then re-encode/save it.

<?php

$json = file_get_contents('results.json');
$data = json_decode($json);
$data[] = $_POST['data'];
file_put_contents('results.json', json_encode($data));

Let's say you've got [1,2,3] stored in your file. Your code could turn that into [1,2,3]4, which is syntactically wrong.