How to parse JSON string in php

Question

I\'m getting below JSON response:

[{\"startDate\":\"2012-07-12 11:21:38 +0530\",\"totalTime\":0},{\"startDate\":\"2012-07-11 11:27:33 +0530\",\"totalTime\":0         


        

Answer 1

As everyone said, and you did - use json_decode.

    $dateArrays  = json_decode($dateTimeArr, true); // decode JSON to associative array
    foreach($dateArrays as $dateArr){
        echo $dateArr['startDate']; 
        echo $dateArr['totalTime']; 
    }

In future, if you are unsure what type or structure of data is in the variable, do var_dump($var) and it will print type of variable and its content.