How can PHP developers efficiently handle and display data in a JSON table format for use with Google Charts?

To efficiently handle and display data in a JSON table format for use with Google Charts, PHP developers can create an associative array with the necessary data and then encode it into JSON format using the json_encode() function. This JSON data can then be used in conjunction with Google Charts to visualize the data in a table format.

<?php

// Sample data for the table
$data = array(
    array('Name', 'Age', 'Gender'),
    array('John', 25, 'Male'),
    array('Jane', 30, 'Female'),
    array('Mike', 35, 'Male')
);

// Encode the data into JSON format
$jsonData = json_encode($data);

// Output the JSON data
echo $jsonData;

?>