Parse JSON string contents into PHP Array

Question

I am trying to parse a string in JSON, but not sure how to go about this. This is an example of the string I am trying to parse into a PHP array.

$json = '{"id":1,"name":"foo","email":"[email protected]"}';  

Is there some library that can take the id, name, and email and put it into an array?

Answer 1

You can use json_decode()

$json = '{"id":1,"name":"foo","email":"[email protected]"}';  

$object = json_decode($json);

Output: 
    {#775 ▼
      +"id": 1
      +"name": "foo"
      +"email": "[email protected]"
    }

How to use: $object->id //1

$array = json_decode($json, true /*[bool $assoc = false]*/);

Output:
    array:3 [▼
      "id" => 1
      "name" => "foo"
      "email" => "[email protected]"
    ]

How to use: $array['id'] //1

Answer 2

Try json_decode:

$array = json_decode('{"id":1,"name":"foo","email":"[email protected]"}', true);
//$array['id'] == 1
//$array['name'] == "foo"
//$array['email'] == "[email protected]"

Answer 3

It can be done with json_decode(), be sure to set the second argument to true because you want an array rather than an object.

$array = json_decode($json, true); // decode json

Outputs:

Array
(
    [id] => 1
    [name] => foo
    [email] => [email protected]
)