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$array = array('start'=>"new Date(".date("Y",strtotime($start_date)).")");
$myJson = json_encode($array);

The returned json is a string, how can i convert the dates to objects? I'm using the jquery calendar plugin and it wants a date object. Thanks!

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Send a date string normally with json and then parse it with javascript: var d = Date.parse("Jul 8, 2005");

Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parse.asp

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This is great to know! I used a few str_replaces() to just strip the quotes out of the json output but next time I will remember this. Thanks! – Fostah Aug 17 '11 at 23:17
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You referenced w3schools. W3schools is a terrible resource as it teaches syntax and not design. W3schools would recommend you send a js snippet and then eval(snippet) it.... -1 – sg3s Aug 17 '11 at 23:30
@sg3s It was the first result on the search... – Jorge Aug 18 '11 at 11:24
@Jorge doesn't automatically make it right. – sg3s Aug 18 '11 at 16:47
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@sg3s Does the solution work? – Jorge Aug 23 '11 at 13:49
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Instead of trying to send javascript to the browser send just a unix timestamp and make a date with that on the server

PHP

echo json_encode(array('start' => mktime(date("Y",strtotime($start_date)))));

JS

var val = JSON.parse(json);
var date = new Date(val['start']);
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