Handling malformed JSON in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to write a php script that handles data from a webservice that delivers \"json\" as a string. The problem is the string isn\'t really json; it\'s javascript. Spe

Answer 1

Depends on how complicated your data is :

$output = "{desc:'User defined payload',asc:'whatever'}";

function json_js_php($string){

    $string = str_replace("{",'{"',$string);
    $string = str_replace(":'",'":"',$string);
    $string = str_replace("',",'","',$string);
    $string = str_replace("'}",'"}',$string);
    return $string;

}

echo json_decode(json_js_php($output))->{'desc'}; 

returns : User defined payload