PHP

json url decode php

$json = file_get_contents('http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceNameJSON?lat=51.9877644&lng=-1.47866&username=demo');

$data = json_decode($json,true);

$Geonames = $data['geonames'][0];

echo "<pre>";

print_r($Geonames);

exit;

json encode decode php

$json = '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}';
var_dump(json_decode($json)); //converts json to array

$array = [ "a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => 3];
echo json_encode($json_encode($json)); //converts array to json

php decode json object

<?php

$json = '{"firstName":"Peter","lastName:":"Silva","age":23}';

$personInfo = json_decode(json);

echo $personInfo->age;

?>

php try to decode json

/** Checks if JSON and returns decoded as an array, if not, returns false, 
but you can pass the second parameter true, if you need to return
a string in case it's not JSON */
function tryJsonDecode($string, $returnString = false) {
   $arr = json_decode($string);
  if (json_last_error() === JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
    return $arr;
  } else {
    return ($returnString) ? $string : false;
  }
}

php json decode

$obj = json_decode("{string:'string'}");