PHP: file_get_contents('php://input') returning string for JSON message

Question

I am trying to read in a JSON message in my PHP app and this is my php code:

$json = file_get_contents(\'php://input\');
$obj = json_decode($json, TRUE);
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Answer 1

there are two type for executing this type of request

First : you can use it as an stdClassObject for this

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'));

it will return a object and you can retrieve data from this like

$name = $data->name;

Second : you can use it as an array for this

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);

it will return a object and you can retrieve data from this like

$name = $data['name'];