php json_decode fails without quotes on key

Question

I have json data represented like this

{key:"value"}

(no quotes arround key...)

I want to translate it to an associative array.

PHP's json_decode returns null

How can I add the quotes around the key?? thanks...

Answer 1

You can either fix the JSON at the source so that it returns a valid JSON structure, or you can manually add quotes around the keys.

This answer to a similar question has an example of how to do that:

function my_json_decode($s) {
    $s = str_replace(
        array('"',  "'"),
        array('\"', '"'),
        $s
    );
    $s = preg_replace('/(\w+):/i', '"\1":', $s);
    return json_decode(sprintf('{%s}', $s));
}