PHP string to array

Question

I have a string that when I var_dump returns the following

string(20) \"{\\\"key1\\\":\\\"key1_value\",\\\"key2\\\":\\\"key2_value\\\"}\"

How c

Answer 1

It looks like a simple JSON array that got mangled by PHP's magic_quotes or some other escaping function. Turn off magic_quotes and run json_decode() on the string.

// If you cannot disable `magic_quotes` or you escaped it manually, use this
$array = json_decode(stripslashes($strings), true);