Read JSON Data Using PHP

Question

Solr returns response in following JSON format.

{
  \"responseHeader\":{
    \"status\":0,
    \"QTime\":2,
    \"params\":{
      \"indent\":\"on\",
      \         


        

Answer 1

PHP has a json_decode function that will allow you to turn a JSON string into an array:

$array = json_decode($json_string, true);
$student_id = $array['response']['docs'][0]['student_id'];
...

Of course, you might want to iterate through the list of students instead of accessing index 0.