Parse JSON string contents into PHP Array

Question

I am trying to parse a string in JSON, but not sure how to go about this. This is an example of the string I am trying to parse into a PHP array.

$json = \'{         


        

Answer 1

Try json_decode:

$array = json_decode('{"id":1,"name":"foo","email":"foo@test.com"}', true);
//$array['id'] == 1
//$array['name'] == "foo"
//$array['email'] == "foo@test.com"