read json file php code example

Example 1: php json_decode

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

$person = json_decode($personJSON);

echo $person->name; // Johny Carson

Example 2: php decode json file

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

Example 3: access json with php

<?php

$data = '{
	"name": "Aragorn",
	"race": "Human"
}';

$character = json_decode($data);
echo $character->name;

Example 4: convert text file to json php

<?php
  header('Content-type: application/json');
  echo json_encode( explode("\r\n",file_get_contents('data.txt')) );
?>