PHP json_decode returning null

Question

I searched a lot in google and stackoverflow, but couldn't find a solution.

I've the following json coming from DB:

{"nome":"Tést","curso":"Educação Infantil","serie":"1ª Etapa 1011"}

As you can see, there are some utf8 chars that were not saved as unicode. And when I try to decode this json, it returns null and json_last_error returns 5.

Does anyone have a solution?

Error 5 is JSON_ERROR_UTF8. I think you need to format the character ª some other way (if at all possible). — padarom
– padarom, Commented Apr 4, 2014 at 12:34

Rakesh Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-04 13:05:09Z

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Use like following. Use with single quote;

$a = '{"nome":"Tést","curso":"Educação Infantil","serie":"1ª Etapa 1011"}';
var_dump(json_decode($a));

Here is working demo: codepad

If not work, alternatively you can use iconv to convert your stirng to utf-8 and decode like;

<?php
$a = '{"nome":"Tést","curso":"Educação Infantil","serie":"1ª Etapa 1011"}';
$a = iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', utf8_encode($a));
$json = json_decode($a);
var_dump($json);
?>

edited Apr 4, 2014 at 13:05

Rakesh Sharma

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answered Apr 4, 2014 at 12:39

Hüseyin BABAL

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Hüseyin BABAL Over a year ago

@RakeshSharma how? I have provided demo. Is not working demo for you?

Hüseyin BABAL Over a year ago

Could you try updated code if you have iconv installed?

Rafael Moni Over a year ago

ignoring utf8 it worked too! thanks!!! I chose the other answer because was way simpler! :P

Rakesh Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-04 12:41:09Z

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try

$utfstr= mb_convert_encoding($str ,"UTF-8");
$output = json_decode($utfstr, true);

answered Apr 4, 2014 at 12:41

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