php json decode 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 json_decode

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

$person = json_decode($personJSON);

echo $person->name; // Johny Carson

Example 3: parse json phph

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

Example 4: php json decoding as string incorrectly

//"[{\"name\": \"bill\", \"score\": 0.7948127388954163}, {\"name\": \"john\", \"score\": 0.782698392868042}]";
//for json in above format try this
$r=json_decode(stripcslashes(trim($response,'"')));