Parsing a PHP Array with Decode

Question

I am having a challenge correctly parsing an array in PHP. Here is the output of the array:

[{"address":"2801 Elliott Ave","category_ids":[347],"category_labels":[["Social","Food and 
Dining","Restaurants"]],"country":"us","email":"[email protected]","factual_id":"43cfe23
8-ae8e-469a-8592-a1edc8603051","fax":"(206) 448-
9252","latitude":47.615154,"locality":"Seattle","longitude":-122.353724,"name":"The Old 
Spaghetti Factory","neighborhood":["Belltown","Downtown","Downtown 
Seattle"],"postcode":"98121","region":"WA","tel":"(206) 441-
7724","website":"http:\/\/www.osf.com"}]

And here is the parsing attempt...

$mark = array("[");
$mark2 = array("]");
$replacemark  = array("");
$array = str_replace($mark, $replacemark, $array);
$array = str_replace($mark2, $replacemark, $array);
$array = stripslashes($array);

$obj = json_decode($array);

$address = $obj->{'address'};
$country = $obj->{'country'};
$factual_id = $obj->{'factual_id'};
$latitude = $obj->{'latitude'};
$locality = $obj->{'locality'};
$longitude = $obj->{'longitude'};
$name = $obj->{'name'};
$postcode = $obj->{'postcode'};
$region = $obj->{'region'};
$status = $obj->{'status'};
$tel = $obj->{'tel'};

Any ideas why these values are not returning anything? Thanks!

What is all the replacing atop supposed to accomplish?

mario
– mario

2013-10-22 01:27:12 +00:00
Commented Oct 22, 2013 at 1:27 — mario
– mario, Commented Oct 22, 2013 at 1:27

user1864610 · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-22 01:39:07Z

1

There's no need to strip the square brackets. Simply call json_decode() on the data and retrieve your information.

Note: the data in the form you have it decodes to an array of objects, with just one object, so you need to provide an array subscript:

$json = json_decode("My JSON Data...here");
echo $json[0]->address;

See this fiddle

2nd Note: the data as you have posted it has embedded newlines which caused a problem with json_decode(). If you have those in your original data you'll need to strip them before decoding. I edited them out in the fiddle.

answered Oct 22, 2013 at 1:39

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GroovyCarrot · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-22 01:47:11Z

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You don't need to remove the square brackets in the JSON string, and then try accessing your values like $obj->address

Edit:

That JSON string returns an array with your object at index 0, tested myself, so to access your values you will need to: $obj[0]->address or set your object $obj = $de_json[0]; and accessing values as I said above

edited Oct 22, 2013 at 1:47

answered Oct 22, 2013 at 1:30

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Darren Over a year ago

json_decode() is returning NULL with and without the brackets

GroovyCarrot Over a year ago

works fine for me, only problem is that the JSON string when decoded returns an array containing the object at index 0 so the above needs some adjusting

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