$value) { # code... $query = "SELECT title FROM fileindex WHERE id = ? "; $file = PDO_FetchRow($query, array($value["doc_id"])); if ($file) { $fileList[$key]["title"] = $file["title"]; } else { $fileList[$key]["title"] = ""; } } $output["file"] = $fileList; } } } echo json_encode($output, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);