I am Converting asp.net c# application into php i am facing problem with json encode like i have to encode one datetime field like created date into php so i am using simply
$arr=array('OrderDate'=>date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
echo `json_encode($arr);`
//output => {"OrderDate": "2017-03-22 06:21:28"}
same thing in asp.net
Order objOrder= new Order();
objOrder.OrderDate = SystemTime.Now();
JsonConvert.SerializeObject($objOrder);
returns
{"OrderDate": "2017-03-22T10:40:17.313313+05:30"}
i wanted to exactly same output like asp.net using php json_encode() how do i achieve?