PHP Working With JSON Tutorial

PHP Working With JSON

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In this code snippet, we’ll learn how to work with JSON in PHP.

You can use json_encode() to serialize and json_decode() to deserialize JSON. json_decode() also takes a second parameter(true/false) where you can specify if you want the JSON to be deserialized to an associative array or to an object.

In this post, you can see a practical example of JSON serialization/deserialization.

Let’s see the example code below.

Code:

<?php

//Array/Object
$data = [ 
    "people" => [
        [ "id" => "1", "name" => "Bob"],
        [ "id" => "2", "name" => "Alice"]
    ]
];

//Serialize.
$jsonString = json_encode($data);

//Deserialize.
$decodedData = json_decode($jsonString, true);