How to convert JSON string to array

Question

I want to take JSON as input from text area in php and use this input and convert it to JSON and pass it to php curl to send request.

I'm getting at php from get of api this json string i want to pass to json but it is not converting to array

echo $str='{
        action : "create",
        record: {
            type: "n$product",
            fields: {
                n$name: "Bread",
                n$price: 2.11
            },
            namespaces: { "my.demo": "n" }
        }
    }';
    $json = json_decode($str, true);

the above code is not returning me array.How to do that?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

If you pass the JSON in your post to json_decode, it will fail. Valid JSON strings have quoted keys:

json_decode('{foo:"bar"}');         // this fails
json_decode('{"foo":"bar"}', true); // returns array("foo" => "bar")
json_decode('{"foo":"bar"}');       // returns an object, not an array.

Hope it helps!!
Thank you!!