"$dbname", "UID" => "$username", "PWD" => "$password", "CharacterSet" => "UTF-8"); $conn = sqlsrv_connect($hostname, $connectionInfo); if ($conn === false) { die(print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true)); } $data = array(); $id = $_POST["id"]; $sql = "SELECT [category_name] FROM [Construction_Category] WHERE [category_id] = ?"; $fetchResult = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql, array($id)); while ($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($fetchResult)) { array_push($data, $row); } echo json_encode($data, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);