Extract information from string to arrays

Question

Hello I am not really familiar with fancy stuff that can be done with php, so i could do 200line function, when pros could do it better in few fabolus lines. Lets say i receive string that looks like

[{
    "id": "9e30bb3094e00abc291016a7a597ba1840a6d6ec",
    "user_id": "adb16da39e5ecc448e2aa4aec8a34a8158fa137a",
    "document_name": "sample.pdf",
 }]
[{
    "id": "9e30bb3094e00a6c291016a7a598ba1840a6d6ec",
    "user_id": "adb16da39e5ecc448e2aa4aec8a34a8158fa137a",
    "document_name": "sample2.pdf",
 }]

. . .

Is there any neat method to get number of these "documents", their ids. like
echo $dnumber; //5
echo $id[5]; //9e30bb3094e00a6c291016a7a598ba1840a6d6ec

is that JSON? [json_decode](http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php) — Rusty Fausak, Sep 24 '14 at 15:54

cornelb · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-24T16:00:22.283

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Considering it's a JSON, you can use json_decode

$string = '...';
$records = json_decode($string);
echo $records[5]->id;

Valid JSON would be

[
    {
        "id": "9e30bb3094e00abc291016a7a597ba1840a6d6ec",
        "user_id": "adb16da39e5ecc448e2aa4aec8a34a8158fa137a",
        "document_name": "sample.pdf"
    },
    {
        "id": "9e30bb3094e00a6c291016a7a598ba1840a6d6ec",
        "user_id": "adb16da39e5ecc448e2aa4aec8a34a8158fa137a",
        "document_name": "sample2.pdf"
    }
]

edited Sep 24 '14 at 16:00

answered Sep 24 '14 at 15:55

cornelb

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Thanks, totally forgot to check what can I do with json. this solved it for me – Newb Sep 24 '14 at 16:05

Extract information from string to arrays

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