json object in 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: json php

//Json Encode

$person = array( 
    "name" => "KINGASV", 
    "title" => "CTO"
); 
$personJSON=json_encode($person);//returns JSON string

//Json Decode

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

$person = json_decode($personJSON);

echo $person->name; // KINGASV

Example 3: php return json

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

Example 4: php is json

function is_json($input_line) {
    if(is_string($input_line)){
        preg_match('/^\{(\s+|\n+)*(\"(.*)(\n+|\s+)*)*\}$|^\[(\s+|\n+)*\{(\s+|\n+)*(\"(.*)(\n+|\s+)*)*\}(\s+|\n)*\]$/', $input_line, $output_array);
        if (  isset($output_array) || !empty($output_array)) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
    }