function sql2json($query) {
 $data_sql = mssql_query($query) or die("'';//" . mssql_error());// If an error has occurred,
 //    make the error a js comment so that a javascript error will NOT be invoked
 $json_str = ""; //Init the JSON string.
 
 if($total = mssql_num_rows($data_sql)) { //See if there is anything in the query
   $json_str .= "[\n";
 
   $row_count = 0;
   while($data = mssql_fetch_assoc($data_sql)) {
     if(count($data) > 1) $json_str .= "{\n";
 
     $count = 0;
     foreach($data as $key => $value) {
       //If it is an associative array we want it in the format of "key":"value"
       if(count($data) > 1) $json_str .= "\"$key\":\"$value\"";
       else $json_str .= "\"$value\"";
 
       //Make sure that the last item don't have a ',' (comma)
       $count++;
       if($count > count($data)) $json_str .= ",\n";
     }
     $row_count++;
     if(count($data) > 1) $json_str .= "}\n";
 
     //Make sure that the last item don't have a ',' (comma)
     if($row_count < $total) $json_str .= ",\n";
   }
 
   $json_str .= "]\n";
 }
 
 //Replace the '\n's - make it faster - but at the price of bad redability.
 $json_str = str_replace("\n","",$json_str); //Comment this out when you are debugging the script
 
 //Finally, output the data
 return $json_str;
}

$string = iconv('cp1252','utf-8',$string);

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");