How handling error of json decode by try and catch

Question

I am unable to handle JSON decode errors. Here is my code:

try {
    $jsonData = file_get_contents($filePath) . \']\';
           


        

Answer 1

Since PHP 7.3 one can use the JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR constant.

try {
    $jsonObj = json_decode($jsonData, true, $depth=512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    // handle exception
}

More: https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.json-decode.php#refsect1-function.json-decode-changelog