在PHP中从远程URL读取JSON [关闭]

Question

I have this JSON file:

http://www.jeewanaryal.com/angryQuiz/eighties/json/eighties.json

and I am trying to decode it in PHP as follows:

$json = file_get_contents('http://www.jeewanaryal.com/angryQuiz/eighties/json/eighties.json'); 
$data = json_decode($json);
var_dump($data);

But, the output I am getting is NULL. Am I missing anything?

Answer 1

Documentation

json_decode can return NULL as the documentation states.

Returns the value encoded in json in appropriate PHP type. Values true, false and null (case-insensitive) are returned as TRUE, FALSE and NULL respectively. NULL is returned if the json cannot be decoded or if the encoded data is deeper than the recursion limit.

Your Problem

json_decode is failing here because of inside of id 6

{ "id": 6, "url": "http://jeewanaryal.com/angryQuiz/eighties/images/betterOffDead.jpg", "question": "In the movie 'Better Off Dead', what was the name of Lane's younger brother?", "answer": [ { "a": { "text": "Bradger", "status": 1 } }, { "b": { "text": "Peter", "status": 0 } }, { "c": { "text": "Frank", "status": 0 } }, { "d": { "text": "Michael", "status": 0 } } ] }

Solution

I guess your best bet here is to escape them before json_decode

$safe_json = str_replace(" ", "\ ", $json);