parse json from string php code example

Example 1: php decode json file

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('/path/to/your/file.json'));

Example 2: php decode json object

<?php

$json = '{"firstName":"Peter","lastName:":"Silva","age":23}';

$personInfo = json_decode(json);

echo $personInfo->age;

?>

Example 3: parse json phph

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