Parse JSON in PHP: Quick Guide

1 year ago
Benjamin Taylor
1 minute

To parse JSON data and retrieve content in PHP, you can use the json_decode() function to convert the JSON string into a PHP object or array. You can then access the data through object properties or array indexes.

For example, suppose there is a string containing the following JSON data:

{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "age": 30,
  "email": "john.doe@example.com"
}

You can use the following code to parse JSON data and retrieve the content:

$jsonString = '{"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "email": "john.doe@example.com"}';
$data = json_decode($jsonString);

echo $data->name; // 输出：John Doe
echo $data->age; // 输出：30
echo $data->email; // 输出：john.doe@example.com

If you want to convert JSON data into an associative array instead of an object, you can pass in the second argument true to the json_decode() function.

$jsonString = '{"name": "John Doe", "age": 30, "email": "john.doe@example.com"}';
$data = json_decode($jsonString, true);

echo $data['name']; // 输出：John Doe
echo $data['age']; // 输出：30
echo $data['email']; // 输出：john.doe@example.com

By using this method, you can easily parse JSON data and extract its contents.

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