json_decode to array

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Harsha M V picture Harsha M V · Mar 2, 2011 · Viewed 701.3k times · Source

I am trying to decode a JSON string into an array but i get the following error.

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in C:\wamp\www\temp\asklaila.php on line 6

Here is the code:

<?php
$json_string = 'http://www.domain.com/jsondata.json';

$jsondata = file_get_contents($json_string);
$obj = json_decode($jsondata);
print_r($obj['Result']);
?>

Answer

Stephen picture Stephen · Mar 2, 2011

As per the documentation, you need to specify if you want an associative array instead of an object from json_decode, this would be the code:

json_decode($jsondata, true);

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