php json string to array code example

Example 1: 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
?>

Example 2: php echo json

<?php
$data = ['name' => 'John', 'age' => 35];
header('Content-type: Application/json');
echo json_encode($data);

Example 3: php json_decode

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

$person = json_decode($personJSON);

echo $person->name; // Johny Carson

Example 4: how to get data from json array in php

$data = json_decode($json);

Example 5: php decode json object

<?php

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

$personInfo = json_decode(json);

echo $personInfo->age;

?>

Example 6: string to array in php

print_r(explode(',',$yourstring));