how to convert this malformed string to json with php/jquery - php

Question

I have this string -
{
'Carlos':
{
Name: 'Spers',
href: "http://google.com"
},
'Winter':
{
Name: 'Warres',
href: "http://yahoo.com"
},
'Doer':
{
Name: 'Pinto',
href: "http://carpet.com"
}
}
I validated the with JSLinter, it say invalid with multiple errors. And I understand that. The issue is, this is what I get from a third party service. I have to leave with it. Now I'm stuck with it to convert into JSON object to work with it.
When I use json_decode($thisStirng) in PHP, it returns null. $.parseJSON(data) returns me errors too.
I would like to show the data on the webpage with some styling. So at the end, I want json object at the client to work with. So converting data to JSON with PHP or jQuery, anyway would work.
How should I go about it?
Update
I got an associative array with json_decode($thisStirng, true). Now I want echo it as a string so that on browser, I could access it with array indexes.
Thank you all - got it working as below -
$someObject = json_decode($thisStirng,true);
$myarry = array();
foreach ($someObject as $key => $val) {
$temparray = array();
$temparray[]= $key;
$temparray[]= $val;
$myarry[]= $temparray;
}
echo json_encode($myarry);
Now in jQuery I can access, data[index][0] as 'Carlos' and other dynamic keys. data[index][1] is an object with 'Name' and 'href' properies.

Answer 1

You can try this code.
$jsonData='{
"Carlos":
{
"Name": "Spers",
"href": "http://google.com"
},
"Winter":
{
"Name": "Warres",
"href": "http://yahoo.com"
},
"Doer":
{
"Name": "Pinto",
"href": "http://carpet.com"
}
}';
$arr1=array();
$arr2=array();
$arr3=array();
$phpArray = json_decode($jsonData, true);
foreach ($phpArray as $key => $value) {
$arr1=array();
$arr1[]=$key;
foreach ($value as $k => $v) {
$arr2=array();
$arr2[$k]=$v;
$arr3[]=$arr2;
}
}
echo $arr3[0]['Name'];

Answer 2

try using this:
<?php
$jsonData='{
"Carlos":
{
"Name": "Spers",
"href": "http://google.com"
},
"Winter":
{
"Name": "Warres",
"href": "http://yahoo.com"
},
"Doer":
{
"Name": "Pinto",
"href": "http://carpet.com"
}
}';
$phpArray = json_decode($jsonData, true);
foreach ($phpArray as $key => $value) {
echo "Key:".$key. ", Name:". $value['Name'].'<br>';
}
?>
OUTPUT:
Key:Carlos, Name:Spers
Key:Winter, Name:Warres
Key:Doer, Name:Pinto