JSON String not parsing correctly PHP

Question

I get the following output from an API call:

$json = file_get_contents($service_url);

the var_dump of $json gives me:

string(308) " [{"Transaction_ID":2805579},{"Transaction_ID":2777876},{"Transaction_ID":2808406}]"

However, var_dump(json_decode($json)) returns a null.

What am I doing wrong?

"NULL is returned if the json cannot be decoded or if the encoded data is deeper than the recursion limit. " php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php — Emil
– Emil, Commented Aug 23, 2015 at 21:56

Armand · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-23 21:21:04Z

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decode_json isn't a function, you should use json_decode

var_dump(json_decode($json))

answered Aug 23, 2015 at 21:21

Armand

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