Parse JSON string contents into PHP Array

Question

I am trying to parse a string in JSON, but not sure how to go about this. This is an example of the string I am trying to parse into a PHP array.

$json = '{"id":1,"name":"foo","email":"[email protected]"}';  

Is there some library that can take the id, name, and email and put it into an array?

Answer 1

It can be done with json_decode(), be sure to set the second argument to true because you want an array rather than an object.

$array = json_decode($json, true); // decode json

Outputs:

Array
(
    [id] => 1
    [name] => foo
    [email] => [email protected]
)