Convert jQuery Array string to PHP Array

Question

First of all, I gotta say I'm pretty new to PHP and I'm trying to get a PHP object on which I can use foreach.

The following string is passed through $.ajax(); I'm trying to turn the following string:

$menu = "[
 {"title" : TEST1, "href" : #},
 {"title" : TEST2, "href" : QWERTY},
 {"title" : TEST3, "href" : QWERTY, "active" : 1}
]"

into and php object on which I can use a foreach loop:

foreach($menu as $li){
 echo $li['title'];
}

Am I using the optimal solution for creating the menu items or should I be following another format?

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards, Alex G.

Answer 1

That's a JSON format.. and it is broken.. Fix your JSON data as shown and loop using a foreach

PHP

<?php
$menu = '[{"title" : "TEST1", "href" : "#"},
 {"title" : "TEST2", "href" : "QWERTY"},
 {"title" : "TEST3", "href" : "QWERTY", "active" : 1}]';
foreach(json_decode($menu,true) as $k=>$arr)
{
 echo $arr['title']."<br>";
}

OUTPUT :

TEST1
TEST2
TEST3

• Grozav Alex Ioan: I tried json_decode already and it wasn't working. Thank you very much, putting the QUOTES seems to have fixed it.

Answer 2

Try json_decode function

<?php
 $menu = '[
 {"title" : TEST1, "href" : #},
 {"title" : TEST2, "href" : QWERTY},
 {"title" : TEST3, "href" : QWERTY, "active" : 1}
]';
 $test=json_decode($menu );
 print_r($test);
 foreach($test as $ts)
 {
 echo $ts['title'];
 echo "<br>";
 }
 ?>

• Grozav Alex Ioan: Should I be setting TEST1, TEST2, etc. as the "TEST1" string in jquery?
• user3427568: @GrozavAlexIoan Look that string is in JSON format.
• Sanoob: You used double quotes without character escape
• Akshay Paghdar: @Let'sCode :- Hey that string is broken. refer Shankar Damodaran's answer.