Json_decode to array

try this

$json_string = 'domain.com/jsondata.json';

$jsondata = file_get_contents($json_string);

$obj = json_decode($jsondata,true);

echo "<pre>";

print_r($obj);

4 years ago

This will also change it into an array:

<?php

    print_r((array) json_decode($object));

?>

4 years ago

This is a late contribution, but there is a valid case for casting json_decode with (array).
Consider the following:

$jsondata = '';

$arr = json_decode($jsondata, true);

foreach ($arr as $k=>$v){

    echo $v; // etc.

}

If $jsondata is ever returned as an empty string (as in my experience it often is), json_decode will return NULL, resulting in the error Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 3. You could add a line of if/then code or a ternary operator, but IMO it's cleaner to simply change line 2 to ...

$arr = (array) json_decode($jsondata,true);
... unless you are json_decodeing millions of large arrays at once, in which case as @TCB13 points out, performance could be negatively effected.

4 years ago