Get value of JSON object in PHP variable

Question

I have the following JSON object:

[Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object]
   0: Object
      category: Object
         0: "Value"

I was wondering how I could get 'Value' in a variable in PHP. I thought category[0] would just do it but I get the following instead of 'Value':

 __proto__: Object

What should I do?

Do you mean you have a javascript object (or array of objects it might appear) you want to pass to PHP? What you show is not JSON (JSON is nothing more than a serialization format). What is the actual mechanism proposed for passing the data (i.e. AJAX call)? — Mike Brant, Nov 11 '13 at 20:18
If that's how your JSON looks like it would be `$var = json_decode($json); $var[0]['category']['0']` — Tsanyo Tsanev, Nov 11 '13 at 20:27
oh wait, try without the '' on the second 0 - $var[0]['category'][0]. Can you paste a larger snipped of your php code? — Tsanyo Tsanev, Nov 11 '13 at 20:34
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/40979/discussion-between-tsanyo-tsanev-and-anoniem-anoniem) — Tsanyo Tsanev, Nov 11 '13 at 20:55

Ladislav M · Answer 1 · 2015-03-27T18:11:07.397

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You have to converts the JSON string into associative array, which is done by json_decode() with second parameter set as true.

$var = json_decode($json, true); 
$value = $var['0']['category']['0'];

edited Mar 27 '15 at 18:11

answered Nov 11 '13 at 22:30

Ladislav M

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