json_decode not working in php

Question

Please check my below code and please let me know ehat wrong I am doing , I just want to decode the json and print on the browser as array

<?php
$json = '{
"Token" : "xxx-xxx-xxx",
"ID": "1",
"Recipients": [
 {
 "Recipient_ID": "XX",
 "From_Name": "XXX",
 "From_Email": "XXX",
 "To_Name": "XXX",
 "To_Email": "XXX",
 "Subject": "XXX",
 "Message": "XXX",
 "Attachments": [
 {
 "File_Name": "XXX",
 "File_Path": "XXX",
 }
 ],
 }
],
}';
$input = $json;
print_r(json_decode(stripslashes($input)));
?>

I tried this json string to decode online (http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/) and its working fine so no issue with json string. Any help would be appreciate.

• Jonnix: You have 3 trailing , that you shouldn't have.
• irfanengineer: your json is also not valid look my updated answer
• Rakesh Sojitra: remove , at end of json string
• Rakesh Sojitra: @Jon Stirling : Its 2 trailing ,
• Jonnix: @RakeshSojitra It's 3.

Answer 1

<?php
$json = '{
 "Token": "xxx-xxx-xxx",
 "ID": "1",
 "Recipients": [{
 "Recipient_ID": "XX",
 "From_Name": "XXX",
 "From_Email": "XXX",
 "To_Name": "XXX",
 "To_Email": "XXX",
 "Subject": "XXX",
 "Message": "XXX",
 "Attachments": [{
 "File_Name": "XXX",
 "File_Path": "XXX"
 }]
 }]
}';
$input = $json;
var_dump(json_decode(stripslashes($input)));
?>

• Mahamadali: Can you please tell me what you changed from current one ?
• user5189304: you can copy the json I mentioned in the answer, I removed three extra commas

Answer 2

the problem stand from the json format you have.. You have some ',' that needs to be removed and that's why the json_decode() can't do his job. This function throws an error exception but you should do a little trick to view the error. You can use this code to view the error.

switch (json_last_error()) {
 case JSON_ERROR_NONE:
 echo ' - No errors';
 break;
 case JSON_ERROR_DEPTH:
 echo ' - Maximum stack depth exceeded';
 break;
 case JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH:
 echo ' - Underflow or the modes mismatch';
 break;
 case JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR:
 echo ' - Unexpected control character found';
 break;
 case JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX:
 echo ' - Syntax error, malformed JSON';
 break;
 case JSON_ERROR_UTF8:
 echo ' - Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded';
 break;
 default:
 echo ' - Unknown error';
 break;
}

And you json should be like this.

$json = '{
"Token" : "xxx-xxx-xxx",
"ID": "1",
"Recipients": [
 {
 "Recipient_ID": "XX",
 "From_Name": "XXX",
 "From_Email": "XXX",
 "To_Name": "XXX",
 "To_Email": "XXX",
 "Subject": "XXX",
 "Message": "XXX",
 "Attachments": [
 {
 "File_Name": "XXX",
 "File_Path": "XXX"
 }
 ]
 }
]
}';

• Mahamadali: Thanks for better explainations :)