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

What you have as data looks like valid JSON. You probably can use json_decode with the second parameter to true (to get an associative array) like this:

$array = json_decode($string, true);