Drupal create a page that outputs JSON

I would like to ask can one create a page that outputs JSON data as a response to Jquery Ajax request?

In a non-drupal way, I would just create a php file, for example mypage.php and then I would use

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as the URL for my AJAX request. This page will then output JSON data using json_encode().

How can I do it the Drupal way?

The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/json_server">JSON server module</a> gives you JSON output of nodes.

If you want more custom JSON, you can use <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_menu/6">hook_menu()</a> to create a new menu callback (basically a URL path pointed to a function) and then use:

- [drupal_json()][1] - Drupal6
- [drupal_json_output()][2] - Drupal7

within that callback to send the output as JSON rather than the default HTML.


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A working example of scott reynen's hint: in drupal 7,
in a module called mymodule, write

function mymodule_menu() {
$items['fancystuff/json'] = array(
'access callback' => true, // available to all
'page callback' => 'mymodule_fancystuff_object', // defined below
'delivery callback' => 'drupal_json_output'
);
return $items;
}



function mymodule_fancystuff_object() {
return array('test'=>true,'dummy'=>array(0,1));
}

clear your caches, goto

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and behold