extract json from string php 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 decode json file

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

Example 3: php return json

header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($array);

Example 4: php return json data

header('Content-Type: application/json'); 

$colors = array("red","blue","green");
echo json_encode($colors);

Example 5: parse json phph

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