Answers for "string to json in php"

string json format to object in php

<?php
  // JSON string
  $someJSON = '[{"name":"Jonathan Suh","gender":"male"},{"name":"William Philbin","gender":"male"},{"name":"Allison McKinnery","gender":"female"}]';

  // Convert JSON string to Array
  $someArray = json_decode($someJSON, true);
  print_r($someArray);        // Dump all data of the Array
  echo $someArray[0]["name"]; // Access Array data

  // Convert JSON string to Object
  $someObject = json_decode($someJSON);
  print_r($someObject);      // Dump all data of the Object
  echo $someObject[0]->name; // Access Object data
?>

php json_decode

$personJSON = '{"name":"Johny Carson","title":"CTO"}';

$person = json_decode($personJSON);

echo $person->name; // Johny Carson

json to array php

//2 ways
  //this is for string from $_REQUEST,$_POST to array
$jsonText = $_REQUEST['myJSON'];
$decodedText = html_entity_decode($jsonText);
$myArray = json_decode($decodedText, true);

//this is for json to array
$assosiative_array = json_decode(json_encode($jsonText),true);

json_encode json_decode php examples

json_encode used when PHP retrieve data and convert Array() to [] !!!!
$arr = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3, 'd' => 4, 'e' => 5);
echo json_encode($arr);
//output
{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}
access from js file data.a, data.b,data.c...
----------------------------------------------
  $json = '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}';
json_decode($json, true); //true turns object to associative array;

//output
array(5) {
    ["a"] => int(1)
    ["b"] => int(2)
    ["c"] => int(3)
    ["d"] => int(4)
    ["e"] => int(5)
}

parse json phph

echo json_decode("[1,2,3]")[0];

php json data to array

json_decode('{foo:"bar"}');         // this fails
json_decode('{"foo":"bar"}', true); // returns array("foo" => "bar")
json_decode('{"foo":"bar"}');       // returns an object, not an array.