Convert data from json into an array

Question

I receive data from an api and I would like to convert value of "game" into an array of array.

I tried

$data = json_decode($json, true);
$array = $data['data']['game'];

It gives me a string.

Here is the data.

{"data":{"game":"[[\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\"],[\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\"]]"},
"status":200}

Thank you.

• Federico klez Culloca: That's not an array, it's an actual string. You should json_decode($array)
• Ramesh Kithsiri HettiArachchi: Possible duplicate of json_encode() escaping forward slashes

Answer 1

this will work

<?php
$json = '{"data":{"game":"[[\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\"],[\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\"]]"},
"status":200}';
$array = json_decode($json, true);
$array = json_decode($array['data']['game'], true);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($array);