json_decode() returns null issues

Question

I\'ve an issue with my JSON. It works returns correctly in PHP 5.3 (so I can\'t use json_last_error()), and it returns successfully when I copy string explicitly into json_d

Answer 1

Useful post from Sebastian about the json output format

https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/142

Using Keith's suggestion will allow the data to be parsed correctly