@batmine3,
It seems to be working fine. Please take a look at this gallery page for an example on creating a chart using JSON data in PHP.
If you are still facing the issue, kindly create a sample project reproducing the issue you are facing along with your sample data and share it with us over Google-Drive or Onedrive so that we can look into the code, understand the scenario better and help you out.
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Shashi Ranjan
Team CanvasJS