JSON String not parsing correctly PHP

Question

I get the following output from an API call:

$json = file_get_contents($service_url);

the var_dump of $json gives me:

string(308) " [{"Transaction_ID":2805579},{"Transaction_ID":2777876},{"Transaction_ID":2808406}]"

However, var_dump(json_decode($json)) returns a null.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

decode_json isn't a function, you should use json_decode

var_dump(json_decode($json))