Parsing this json file using PHP - php

Question

I have the following json file. I need code in php to parse it. I tried all possible ways but no luck. I am not an expert in json parsing.
{
"_id" : { "oid" : "5213785fe4b0780ba56884d3" },
"author" : "Remate.ph",
"message" : "Suspected ASG abducts trader in Zamboanga City http://t.co/4hUttNPI",
"time_created" : 1357958119000,
"version" : "v2.1",
},
{
"_id" : { "oid" : "5213785fe4b0780ba56884d6" },
"author" : "Clydepatrick Jayme ",
"message" : "RT #iFootballPlanet: 74' Osasuna 0 - 0 Real Madrid\n\n-ASG.",
"time_created" : 1358022721000,
"version" : "v2.1",
}
I modified the above json file in the following way. And I wrote the php parsing code for it and it works fine.
{
"info1":{
"_id" : { "oid" : "5213785fe4b0780ba56884d3" },
"author" : "Remate.ph",
"message" : "Suspected ASG abducts trader in Zamboanga City http://t.co/4hUttNPI",
"time_created" : 1357958119000,
"version" : "v2.1",
},
"info2":{
"_id" : { "oid" : "5213785fe4b0780ba56884d6" },
"author" : "Clydepatrick Jayme ",
"message" : "RT #iFootballPlanet: 74' Osasuna 0 - 0 Real Madrid\n\n-ASG.",
"time_created" : 1358022721000,
"version" : "v2.1",
}
}
I used the following code to parse it.
<?php
//$string=file_get_contents("/Users/Anirudh/Downloads/test.json");
$string=file_get_contents("/Users/Anirudh/Sem-1/RA/Test/test.json");
$json_a=json_decode($string,true);
$jsonIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($json_a),RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
//$jsonIterator = new RecursiveArrayIterator(json_decode($string, TRUE));
foreach ($jsonIterator as $key => $val) {
echo "$key => $val\n";
}
?>
Can someone help me in getting the first json format parsed using PHP ?

Answer 1

Your json file has two errors:
Two 1st level items separated by comma (info1 and info2) must be an array, wrap the whole string with brackets [ and ].
Last 2nd level items (version) - remove trailing commas "version" : "v2.1",.
Corrected json:
[{
"_id" : { "oid" : "5213785fe4b0780ba56884d3" },
"author" : "Remate.ph",
"message" : "Suspected ASG abducts trader in Zamboanga City http://t.co/4hUttNPI",
"time_created" : 1357958119000,
"version" : "v2.1"
},
{
"_id" : { "oid" : "5213785fe4b0780ba56884d6" },
"author" : "Clydepatrick Jayme ",
"message" : "RT #iFootballPlanet: 74' Osasuna 0 - 0 Real Madrid\n\n-ASG.",
"time_created" : 1358022721000,
"version" : "v2.1"
}]