Как кодировать массив PHP

<?php
	// the php array
  	$array = array();
	$array['key1'] = "value1";
	$array['key2'] = "value2";
	$array['key3'] = "value3";

	// encode the php array into JSON format
	$json = json_encode($array);

	// check out the results
	var_dump($json);
?>
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