PHP Complex String Parse, JSON'able? - php

Question

So I have the following PHP string:
$output = {"playerId":1178,"percentChange":0.1,"averageDraftPosition":260,"percentOwned":0.1,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Accardo was called up from Columbus on Monday, the Indians' official Twitter feed reports.","spin":"He'll replace Dan Wheeler on the active roster after carrying a 2.76 ERA over 13 appearances with the Clippers to start the season.","date":"Mon May 14"},"fullName":"Jeremy Accardo"}
What I need is: "Accardo was called up from Columbus on Monday, the Indians' official Twitter feed reports." and "He'll replace Dan Wheeler on the active roster after carrying a 2.76 ERA over 13 appearances with the Clippers to start the season." as substrings. But I can't seem to figure out the best and most elegant way to do that. I tried to JSON_decode the string but I get nothing returned. Any ideas? (I am using PHP)

Answer 1

That's not a string. Try like this:
$output = '{"playerId":1178,"percentChange":0.1,"averageDraftPosition":260,"percentOwned":0.1,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Accardo was called up from Columbus on Monday, the Indians\' official Twitter feed reports.","spin":"He\'ll replace Dan Wheeler on the active roster after carrying a 2.76 ERA over 13 appearances with the Clippers to start the season.","date":"Mon May 14"},"fullName":"Jeremy Accardo"}';
$object = json_decode($output);
$array = json_decode($output, true);
$string = json_encode($array);

Answer 2

you have few unescaped string, that is causing the error. a simple formatting could have saved you the time.
$output = '{
"playerId":1178,
"percentChange":0.1,
"averageDraftPosition":260,
"percentOwned":0.1,
"mostRecentNews": {
"news":"Accardo was called up from Columbus on Monday, the Indians official Twitter feed reports",
"spin":"Hell replace Dan Wheeler on the active roster after carrying a 2.76 ERA over 13 appearances with the Clippers to start the season.",
"date":"Mon May 14"
},
"fullName":"Jeremy Accardo"
}';
$json = json_decode($output);

Answer 3

Did you try this?
$output = '{"playerId":1178,"percentChange":0.1,"averageDraftPosition":260,"percentOwned":0.1,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Accardo was called up from Columbus on Monday, the Indians\' official Twitter feed reports.","spin":"He\'ll replace Dan Wheeler on the active roster after carrying a 2.76 ERA over 13 appearances with the Clippers to start the season.","date":"Mon May 14"},"fullName":"Jeremy Accardo"}';
$array = json_decode($output, true);
echo $array['mostRecentNews']['news'];
echo $array['mostRecentNews']['spin'];

Answer 4

json_encode with with only UTF8. are you using allthings with utf8? and you hava synstax error. if you define json variable manually it could be like this;
<?php
$output=<<<JSONSTR
{"playerId":1178,"percentChange":0.1,"averageDraftPosition":260,"percentOwned":0.1,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Accardo was called up from Columbus on Monday, the Indians' official Twitter feed reports.","spin":"He'll replace Dan Wheeler on the active roster after carrying a 2.76 ERA over 13 appearances with the Clippers to start the season.","date":"Mon May 14"},"fullName":"Jeremy Accardo"}
JSONSTR;
$variable = json_decode($output);
var_dump($variable);
?>