JSON string to PHP JSON array - php

Question

I have the following string:
{
legend: {
position: 'top',
textStyle: {
color: '#676a6c'
}
},
colors: ["#1c84c6", "#f8ac59", "#1ab394", "ed5565", "5bc0de", "f0ad4e"],
title: "",
titleTextStyle: {
color: '#676a6c'
},
hAxis: {
title: 'Gemiddelde marge per verkooporder',
textStyle: {
color: '#676a6c',
},
titleTextStyle: {
color: '#676a6c',
italic: 'false',
bold: 'false',
},
format: 'currency'
},
vAxis: {
title: '# verkooporders per product',
textStyle: {
color: '#676a6c',
},
titleTextStyle: {
color: '#676a6c',
italic: 'false',
bold: 'false',
}
},
bubble: {
textStyle: {
color: 'transparent',
auraColor: 'none',
},
},
width: "100%",
isStacked: true,
fontName: 'open sans', //Choose from Times-Roman, Arial
fontSize: 13,
height: 350,
};
I want to convert this to an php array, which i can JSON_encode() later on. What's the best way to iterate through this JSON array?
Do i need to loop through the string with foreach()?

Answer 1

If you use the json_decode() function it should do the trick:
$str = "...your JSON string here...";
$parsed = json_decode($str, true);
Notes:
1) Passing true to json_decode() will make it return an array rather than objects. If you leave it off you'll get objects back; it's down to which you prefer.
2) You should check the result of json_last_error() to see if any errors occurred. If it returns JSON_ERROR_NONE it means the string was parsed correctly.