Strip curly bracket from an output in PHP - php

My php code <?php echo $art->capt; ?> gives the following output:
{"path":"location\/file.png"}
However, I want to show only location/file.png as the output and remove all the junk.
How should I proceed?

That's json. you need to decode it.
<?php
$str = $art->$capt; //'{"path":"location\/file.png"}';
$json = json_decode($str, true);
$path = $json['path'];
echo($path);
?>

That is actually JSON, you can use json_decode to turn it into an object (or array if you pass true in the second argument of json_decode). Get the HTML output. If the HTML isn't already in a variable use output buffering.
ob_start();
/*html is output here*/
$json = ob_get_contents();
$json = json_decode($json, true);
$path = $json['path'];
print_r($path);
//output should be location/file.png

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PHP input to JSON file and JSON file to PHP output

Can anyone please shows me how to get the input of PHP to JSON file (.json) and read data from JSON file and display in PHP (Echo).
for example:
$myObj->name = "John";
$myObj->age= 20;
to result.json
{"name":"John","Age":20}
and retrieve from result.json and display data in PHP as
name=John
Age=20
To convert the object to json use this:
$json = json_encode($myObj);
See the json_encode docs.
To return it back to the format you want try this...
$obj = json_decode($json);
$name = $obj->name; // John
$age = $obj->age; // 20
See the json_decode docs.
To iterate over keys and values do something like this:
foreach($obj as $key=>$value)
{
echo $key . " = " . $value . "\n";
}
json_encode() is used for encoding PHP data into a JSON format and json_decode() is used to decode JSON into a PHP data
json_encode documentation:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
json_decode documentation
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
if you are having an php array you can convert it into json.
$json_string = json_encode($array);
and write this into a json file.
$fp = fopen('results.json', 'w');
fwrite($fp, json_string);
fclose($fp);
now convert your json string which is in results.json to array.
$str = file_get_contents('./results.json');
$array = json_decode($str, true); // decode the JSON into an associative array

Json api decoding

here is my json
{
"rgInventory": {
"5455029633": {
"id":"5455029633",
"classid":"310776543",
"instanceid":"302028390",
"amount":"1"
}
}
}
Here is my way to parse json in php
$content = file_get_contents("http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198201055225/inventory/json/730/2");
$decode = json_decode($content);
foreach($decode->rgInventory->5455029633 as $appid){
echo $appid->id;
}
I need to get that 5455029633 but it dont work in foreach.
And I want to store it in the variable too.
Json, which you've provided is invalid. Remove last comma from "amount":"1", and you are missing closing curly bracket. Then you should be able to access desired value as $decode->rgInventory->{"5455029633"}.
Or make your life simpler ;) and just go for assoc array $decode = json_decode($content, true);
You will need to pass true as second argument to the function json_decode to get an array instead of an object :
PHP
<?php
$content = file_get_contents("http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198201055225/inventory/json/730/2");
$decode = json_decode($content, true);
echo $decode['rgInventory']['6255037137']['id']; // will output the property 'id' of the inventory 6255037137
$invetory = $decode['rgInventory']['6255037137'] // will store the inventory 6255037137 in the variable $inventory
?>

Decode JSON to PHP

I have a .txt file called 'test.txt' that is a JSON array like this:
[{"email":"chrono#gmail.com","createdate":"2016-03-23","source":"email"}]
I'm trying to use PHP to decode this JSON array so I can send my information over to my e-mail database for capture. I've created a PHP file with this code:
<?php
$url = 'http://www.test.com/sweeps/test.txt';
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($content,true);
echo $json;
?>
For some reason, it's not echoing the decoded JSON when I visit my php page. Is there a reason for this and can anyone shed some light? Thanks!
You use echo to print scalar variables like
$x = 'Fred';
echo $x;
To print an array or object you use print_r() or var_dump()
$array = [1,2,3,4];
print_r($array);
As json_decode() takes a JSON string and converts it to a PHP array or object use print_r() for example.
Also if the json_decode() fails for any reason there is a function provided to print the error message.
<?php
$url = 'http://www.test.com/sweeps/test.txt';
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($content,true);
if ( json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE ) {
echo json_last_error_msg();
exit;
}
You'll need to split that json string into two separate json strings (judging by the pastebin you've provided). Look for "][", break there, and try with any of the parts you end up with:
$tmp = explode('][', $json_string);
if (!count($tmp)) {
$json = json_decode($json_string);
var_dump($json);
} else {
foreach ($tmp as $json_part) {
$json = json_decode('['.rtrim(ltrim($json_string, '['), ']').']');
var_dump($json);
}
}

Convert "Java source code characters" in JSON string using PHP

I have a JSON string that contains Dal\u00e9. When I use json_decode on the JSON, it is converted to Dalé, however the original string that the JSON is from is Dalé. Why is this not converted properly?
I have found that "\u00E9" is the C/C++/Java source code encoding for é. However, to me this doesn't answer why this is going wrong.
Example of incorrect PHP output:
<?php
$opts = array('http'=>array('ignore_errors' => true));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$jsonurl = "http://api.kivaws.org/v1/loans/552804.json";
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl, false, $context);
$json_output = array(json_decode($json));
$json_error = $json_output[0]->error;
$json_message = $json_error->message;
foreach ($json_output[0]->{'loans'} as $loan) {
echo 'Name: '.$loan->{'name'};
}
?>
You need to tell the web browser what encoding you are giving it.
<?php
header('content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8');
var_dump(json_decode($jsonStr));
if you are using php 5.4 you may use the function options of json_encode() like this :-
echo $b=json_encode('Dalé',JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
echo json_decode($b);

JSON output for mapping data using json_decode() in php

I am attempting to write PHP code to interact with JSON output from Mapquest's Open API / Open Street Map service. I have listed it below. I have been using this code in my Drupal 6 implementation. This code returns no output. When I use it, json_last_error() outputs 0.
function json_test_page() {
$url = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route?outFormat=json&from=40.037661,-76.305977&to=39.962532,-76.728099';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode(var_export($json));
$foo .= $obj->{'fuelUsed'};
$output .= foo;
return $output;
}
You can view the raw JSON output by following the URL. In this function I am expecting to get 1.257899 as my output. I have two questions:
(1) What can I call so I get items out of my array. For instance, how can I get the value represented in JSON "distance":26.923 out of the array?
(2) Is it possible am I running into a recursion limit issue that I've read about in the PHP Manual?
If you read the manual page for json_decode carefully, you'll notice there is a parameter (false by default) that you can pass to have it return an array rather than an object.
$obj = json_decode($json, true);
So:
<?php
function json_test_page() {
$url = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route?outFormat=json&from=40.037661,-76.305977&to=39.962532,-76.728099';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode($json, true);
//var_dump($obj);
echo $obj['route']['fuelUsed'];
}
json_test_page();
Remove the var_export function from json_decode.
You're trying to convert information about a string to json.
I was able to get the fuelUsed property this way
function json_test_page() {
$url = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route?outFormat=json&from=40.037661,-76.305977&to=39.962532,-76.728099';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode($json);
return $obj->route->fuelUsed;
}

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