Convert jQuery Array string to PHP Array

Question

First of all, I gotta say I'm pretty new to PHP and I'm trying to get a PHP object on which I can use foreach.

The following string is passed through $.ajax(); I'm trying to turn the following string:

$menu = "[
 {"title" : TEST1, "href" : #},
 {"title" : TEST2, "href" : QWERTY},
 {"title" : TEST3, "href" : QWERTY, "active" : 1}
]"

into and php object on which I can use a foreach loop:

foreach($menu as $li){
    echo $li['title'];
}

Am I using the optimal solution for creating the menu items or should I be following another format?

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards, Alex G.

abaft · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-29 12:27:12Z

6

That's a JSON format.. and it is broken.. Fix your JSON data as shown and loop using a foreach

PHP

<?php
$menu = '[{"title" : "TEST1", "href" : "#"},
 {"title" : "TEST2", "href" : "QWERTY"},
 {"title" : "TEST3", "href" : "QWERTY", "active" : 1}]';

foreach(json_decode($menu,true) as $k=>$arr)
{
    echo $arr['title']."<br>";
}

OUTPUT :

TEST1
TEST2
TEST3

edited Mar 29, 2014 at 12:27

abaft

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answered Mar 29, 2014 at 12:23

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Grozav Alex Ioan Over a year ago

I tried json_decode already and it wasn't working. Thank you very much, putting the QUOTES seems to have fixed it.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-29 12:29:50Z

1

Try json_decode function

<?php

       $menu = '[
 {"title" : TEST1, "href" : #},
 {"title" : TEST2, "href" : QWERTY},
 {"title" : TEST3, "href" : QWERTY, "active" : 1}
]';
    $test=json_decode($menu );
   print_r($test);
   foreach($test as $ts)
   {
       echo $ts['title'];
       echo "<br>";
    }
 ?>

edited Mar 29, 2014 at 12:29

answered Mar 29, 2014 at 12:21

user3427568

4 Comments

Grozav Alex Ioan Over a year ago

Should I be setting TEST1, TEST2, etc. as the "TEST1" string in jquery?

user3427568 Over a year ago

@GrozavAlexIoan Look that string is in JSON format.

Sanoob Over a year ago

You used double quotes without character escape

Akshay Paghdar Over a year ago

@Let'sCode :- Hey that string is broken. refer Shankar Damodaran's answer.

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