Cara mendapatkan semua kategori produk dari mysql db melalui php dan mengembalikan json array

Untuk sisi php ini bagaimana Anda bisa mendapatkan array kategori dan membuat json, untuk pernyataan yang sudah disiapkan inilah yang bisa Anda capai

$success = false;
try {

  $DBH = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", $user, $pass);
$success = true;
}
catch(PDOException $e) {
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
$response["data"]=null;
die(json_encode($response));
}

$query_categories = "SELECT category_name FROM categories";

try{

$sth = $sth->prepare($query_categories );
$success = true;

} catch(PDOException $e) {
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = 'Prepare failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
$response["data"]=null;
die(json_encode($response));
}

try{
$sth->execute();
$success = true;
} catch(PDOException $e) {
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = 'Execute failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
$response["data"]=null;
die(json_encode($response));
}

$categories = $sth->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN, 0);/* fetches all categories from db */

/* Output of $query_categories
Array
(
    [0] => cat1
    [1] => cat2
    [2] => cat3
    [3] => cat4
)
*/
/* json encode $query_categories 
["cat1","cat2","cat3","cat4"]
*/

/* check if categories exist or not*/
if(empty($categories)){
        $response["success"] = 0;
        $response["message"] = "No categories found";
        $response["data"]=null;
        die(json_encode($response));
        $connection = null; 

}

if($success) {
    $response["success"] = 1;
    $response["message"] = "Kylie";
    $response["data"]=$categories;
    die(json_encode($response));
    $connection = null;      
 /* output
 {"success":0,"message":"Kylie","data":["cat1","cat2","cat3","cat4"]}
 */
} else {
    $response["success"] = 2;/* don't where you are setting success to 2*/
    $response["message"] = "something went wrong";
    $response["data"]=null;
    die(json_encode($response));
    $connection = null;
}

} else {
        $response["success"] = 3;/* don't where you are setting success to 3*/
        $response["message"] = "Another brick in the wall";  
        $response["data"]=null; 
        die(json_encode($response));
        $connection = null;
}

Saya tidak pandai Java tapi ini referensinya Bagaimana cara mengurai JSON dan mengubah nilainya menjadi Array?

/* store json string in  the_json */
JSONObject myjson = new JSONObject(the_json);
JSONArray the_json_array = myjson.getJSONArray("data");

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