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Reputation: 4321

PHP json_decode JSON string not decoding

{ 
    "hintsacross": 
    [ { "number":"1" , "hinttext":"Hurt", "hintsquare":"A1" }, 
      { "number":"5" , "hinttext":"Make a selection", "hintsquare":"A6" }, 
      { "number":"8" , "hinttext":"Frank", "hintsquare":"A10" }
    ] ,
    "hintsdown": 
    [ { "number":"1" , "hinttext":"First Greek letter", "hintsquare":"A1" },
      { "number":"2" , "hinttext":"Used footnotes", "hintsquare":"A2" }, 
      { "number":"3" , "hinttext":"Listened to", "hintsquare":"A3" }
    ] 
 }

For some reason json_decode of PHP is not decoding this JSON.

Thanks in advance...

P.S. I am getting an error when this line 25 runs:

$temp = json_decode( $obj->hints,true );

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'hintsacross' (T_STRING) in C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\crosswords\query.blockouts.php on line 25

I validated my JSON through JSONlint and the parse error is coming out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2470

Answers (3)

Roy M J
Roy M J

Reputation: 6938

The json is not in correct format. Use jsonlint.com to check this. You will get the error and if the json format is correct, you will get an okay message as well.

Parse error on line 18:
...A10"        }    ]"hintsdown": [     
---------------------^
Expecting 'EOF', '}', ',', ']'

Correct json : 

{
    "hintsacross": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "hinttext": "Hurt",
            "hintsquare": "A1"
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "hinttext": "Make a selection",
            "hintsquare": "A6"
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "hinttext": "Frank",
            "hintsquare": "A10"
        }
    ],
    "hintsdown": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "hinttext": "First Greek letter",
            "hintsquare": "A1"
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "hinttext": "Used footnotes",
            "hintsquare": "A2"
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "hinttext": "Listened to",
            "hintsquare": "A3"
        }
    ]
}

Upvotes: 1

backtrack
backtrack

Reputation: 8144

   $ll="{ "hintsacross": [ { "number":"1" , "hinttext":"Hurt", "hintsquare":"A1" }, { "number":"5" , "hinttext":"Make a selection", "hintsquare":"A6" }, { "number":"8" , "hinttext":"Frank", "hintsquare":"A10" } ],
   "hintsdown": [ { "number":"1" , "hinttext":"First Greek letter", "hintsquare":"A1" }, { "number":"2" , "hinttext":"Used footnotes", "hintsquare":"A2" }, { "number":"3" , "hinttext":"Listened to", "hintsquare":"A3" } ] } "

    $ll = json_decode($ll);
    print_r($ll);

add (,) comma near 

],
   "hintsdown"

hope this will help

Upvotes: 1

Chris Forrence
Chris Forrence

Reputation: 10094

It is invalid JSON. Try adding a comma before "hintsdown" and retrying the json_decode.

{
    "hintsacross": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "hinttext": "Hurt",
            "hintsquare": "A1"
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "hinttext": "Make a selection",
            "hintsquare": "A6"
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "hinttext": "Frank",
            "hintsquare": "A10"
        }
    ],
    "hintsdown": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "hinttext": "First Greek letter",
            "hintsquare": "A1"
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "hinttext": "Used footnotes",
            "hintsquare": "A2"
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "hinttext": "Listened to",
            "hintsquare": "A3"
        }
    ]
}

Upvotes: 5

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