How do you decode a JSON data in WordPress? - php

Question

for 8 hours now I have been trying to parse this jSON response data
{"status":"200","message":"Welcome to spakkolos.com! You are welcome. Stay tuned"}
I have tried the followig, no luck:
$response = wp_remote_request( "https://loopwi.com/json");
$body = wp_remote_retrieve_body($response);
$json = json_decode($body);
echo $json->message; //I got NULL
echo $json['message']; // I got NULL
I tried several methods, I explored unserialized function of WordPress - all didn't work. But this works very excellently perfect outside WordPress. I don't know why WordPress made this so difficult a simple process!
I have done many research still no straight forward example. Please guys I need your help?
Thanks

Answer 1

Can you try the below code, I have used php file_get_contents instead of wordpress finction, I hope that will make sense to you
$body = trim(file_get_contents('https://loopwi.com/json'), "\xEF\xBB\xBF");
$json = json_decode($body);
echo $json->message;
echo $json['message'];
Refer link for explanation

Answer 2

Thanks guys for your replies. As #Ajith pointed out regarding trim(); by using
trim();
function on the response body, the problem solves.
There are ways to achieve this:
$response = wp_remote_request( "https://loopwi.com/json");
$body = trim(wp_remote_retrieve_body($response), "\xEF\xBB\xBF");
$body = trim($body, "\xEF\xBB\xBF");
$json = json_decode($body);
echo $json->message;
Or by this:
$url = "https://loopwi.com/json";
$response = wp_remote_get( $url );
if ( is_array( $response ) && ! is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
$headers = $response['headers']; // array of http header lines
$body = trim($response['body'], "\xEF\xBB\xBF"); // use the content
$json = json_decode($body);
echo $json->status;
echo $json->message;
}
These are functions in the WordPress WordPress's
HTTP API - wp_remote_get, wp_remote_request
Your project may get rejected if you use file_get_contents() in WordPress. Use the HTTP API functions instead.
Thanks for all those who answered and commented. Cheers!