Php convert string into JSON or an Array

php arrays json

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The goal is to turn it into appropriate JSON format so that you can use json_decode. Ill break it down in steps:

remove all \n characters:

$string = str_replace('\n', '', $string);

remove last comma
```
$string = rtrim($string, ',');
```
add brackets
```
$string = "[" . trim($string) . "]";
```
turn it into PHP array:
```
$json = json_decode($string, true);
```

Result:

$string = ''; //your string
$string = str_replace('\n', '', $string);
$string = rtrim($string, ',');
$string = "[" . trim($string) . "]";
$json = json_decode($string, true);
var_dump($json);

Output:

array (size=3)
  0 => 
    array (size=6)
      'account_id' => string '43z95ujithllc32fn02u8ynef' (length=25)
      'email' => string '[email protected]' (length=23)
      'id' => string '955xl0q3h9qe0sc11so8cojo2' (length=25)
      'name' => string 'Gmail Team' (length=10)
      'object' => string 'contact' (length=7)
      'phone_numbers' => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
  1 => 
    array (size=6)
      'account_id' => string '43z95ujithllc32fn02u8ynef' (length=25)
      'email' => string '[email protected]' (length=21)
      'id' => string '3u4e6i9ka3e7ad4km90nip73u' (length=25)
      'name' => string 'Test Account 1' (length=14)
      'object' => string 'contact' (length=7)
      'phone_numbers' => 
        array (size=0)
          empty
  2 => 
    array (size=6)
      'account_id' => string '43z95ujithllc32fn02u8ynef' (length=25)
      'email' => string '[email protected]' (length=20)
      'id' => string 'bt3lphmp0g14y82zelpcf0w0r' (length=25)
      'name' => string 'Test Account' (length=12)
      'object' => string 'contact' (length=7)
      'phone_numbers' => 
        array (size=0)
          empty

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Updated on August 02, 2022

Comments

Saeed Afzal almost 2 years

Can anyone please help me for converting the string into an Array or JSON as well? Please take look on the text sample below;

{
    "account_id": "dfdfdf",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": "dfdfdf",
    "name": "Gmail Team",
    "object": "contact",
    "phone_numbers": []
},
{
    "account_id": "dfdf",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": "dfdf",
    "name": "Ab",
    "object": "contact",
    "phone_numbers": []
},
{
    "account_id": "dfdf",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": "dfdfdf",
    "name": "xyz",
    "object": "contact",
    "phone_numbers": []
},

I have tried

preg_match_all("/\{([^\)]*)\},/", $stream[0], $aMatches);

But it doesn't return anything. I also have tried json_decode, json_encode but could not find any success on it.

Thanks

CodeGodie about 8 years

then you are not providing all the string in your original post.
CodeGodie about 8 years

how is your string formed? Where are you getting the string from?
Saeed Afzal about 8 years

It is string response from a third party API Nylas. I am posting exactly what I am having. I want array where data between { and }, can be get as internal array
CodeGodie about 8 years

I see that you updated your string but that is very different than your original string. Before you had \n characters... what happened to them?
CodeGodie about 8 years

in that case, do the same as my answer, but dont follow step 1.