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

$data = json_encode($result, true);

echo $data;

Answer 2

Use json_decode($json_string, TRUE) function to convert the JSON object to an array.

Example:

$json_string   = '{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}';

$my_array_data = json_decode($json_string, TRUE);

NOTE: The second parameter will convert decoded JSON string into an associative array.

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Output:

var_dump($my_array_data);

array(5) {

    ["a"] => int(1)
    ["b"] => int(2)
    ["c"] => int(3)
    ["d"] => int(4)
    ["e"] => int(5)
}