JSON and PHP, how to load a json file with php, turn it into an array and read the v Options

[Luuk Lamers]

Hello,

I'm trying to read JSON data from a textfile 'sample.json' which is just a plain text file with the json extension

I'm loading the file with $json1 = file_get_contents("sample.json");

Then I'm decoding it. I think it should be encoded for php to recognize it, but I'm not sure since I can't find any webpages that specify this.

the decoding part: $json = json_decode($json1);

then I do an echo to see if there's anything in the value, but I'm not sure if this is the way the decoder works.

echo $json;

I've tried multiple ways of putting the decoded/encoded JSON in an Array and accessing it but it keeps returning an empty string

What is the best way to put a JSON file in a readable Array (or more) which I can then loop through and get values from?

Thanks!

[Brian Chandler]

Probably you want to check a value using print_r() not echo...

But basically this is stuff you have to ask where people know about JSON -- I had no idea what it was, 10 minutes ago.

Have you looked here for example:
http://gggeek.altervista.org/sw/article_20061113.html