How to convert JSON string to array

Question

What I want to do is the following:

1. taking JSON as input from text area in php
2. use this input and convert it to JSON and pass it to php curl to send

Answer 1

If you are getting json string from URL using file_get_contents, then follow the steps:

$url = "http://localhost/rest/users";  //The url from where you are getting the contents
$response = (file_get_contents($url)); //Converting in json string
 $n = strpos($response, "[");
$response = substr_replace($response,"",0,$n+1);
$response = substr_replace($response, "" , -1,1);
print_r(json_decode($response,true));