How to parse JSON string in php

Question

I'm getting below JSON response:

[{"startDate":"2012-07-12 11:21:38 +0530","totalTime":0},{"startDate":"2012-07-11 11:27:33 +0530","totalTime":0},{"startDate":"2012-07-16 18:38:37 +0530","totalTime":0},{"startDate":"2012-07-17 14:18:32 +0530","totalTime":0}]

i want make array of start date and totalTime, i have used these two lines but it wont work $obj, please suggest..

 $obj = json_decode($dateTimeArr); 
 $dateAr = $obj->{'startDate'}; 

Answer 1

As everyone said, and you did - use json_decode.

 $dateArrays = json_decode($dateTimeArr, true); // decode JSON to associative array
 foreach($dateArrays as $dateArr){
 echo $dateArr['startDate']; 
 echo $dateArr['totalTime']; 
 }

In future, if you are unsure what type or structure of data is in the variable, do var_dump($var) and it will print type of variable and its content.

Answer 2

It is very easy:

$Arr = json_decode($JSON, true);

Answer 3

json_decode() will give you nested PHP types you can then descend to retrieve your data.

• Vidyadhar Mandke: i want make array of start date, i have used these two lines but it wont work $obj, please suggest.. $obj = json_decode($dateTimeArr); $dateAr = $obj->{'startDate'}

Answer 4

use json_decode($json_response,true) to convert json to Array

Answer 5

Guess what you are looking for is json_decode()

Check out http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php for the inner workings

• Vidyadhar Mandke: i want make array of start date, i have used these two lines but it wont work $obj, please suggest.. $obj = json_decode($dateTimeArr); $dateAr = $obj->{'startDate'}
• allen213: @rekire It isn't actually in this case but I agree that's ugly stackoverflow.com/questions/5643496/…
• Dale: Try this: $obj = json_decode($dateTimeArr); $dateAr = $obj->startDate; You're mixing up object and array notation there