&1", $output, $return_val); $obj = new stdClass(); $obj->output = $output; foreach ($output as $value) { preg_match("/Date:(.*)/i", $value, $match); if (!empty($match[1])) { $obj->date = strtotime($match[1]); $obj->dateString = trim($match[1]); $obj->dateMySQL = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $obj->date); } } echo json_encode($obj);