PHP json_decode notation issue

Question

I am having an issue dealing with the notation used in a JSON file I am trying parse. Some of the nodes have . (periods) in the names which escapes object-notation ($json

Answer 1

You can use braces around the name to access the property:

<?php

$o = json_decode('{"docs": [{"rssFeed.type": "news", "rssFeed.url": "http://www.example.com/",  "score": 1.0 }]}');

var_dump($o->docs[0]->{'rssFeed.url'});
?>

Answer 2

@eWolf: you are still right, php is almost like javascript as its C like nature.

$object = json_decode('{"docs": [{"rssFeed.type": "news", 
                                  "rssFeed.url": "http://www.example.com/",
                                  "score": 1.0 }]}', TRUE);

Note: the 2nd argument to json_decode(), TRUE. It forces the function to return an associative array.

Now $object['rssFeed.type'] can be used.