Just an update for Mysqli users :
$base= mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dbbase);
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
$return_arr = array();
if ($result = mysqli_query( $base, $sql )){
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$row_array['id'] = $row['id'];
$row_array['col1'] = $row['col1'];
$row_array['col2'] = $row['col2'];
array_push($return_arr,$row_array);
}
}
mysqli_close($base);
echo json_encode($return_arr);