Convert data from json into an array

Question

I receive data from an api and I would like to convert value of "game" into an array of array.

I tried

$data = json_decode($json, true);
$array = $data['data']['game'];

It gives me a string.

Here is the data.

{"data":{"game":"[[\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\"],[\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\"]]"},
"status":200}

Thank you.

That's not an array, it's an actual string. You should `json_decode($array)` — Federico klez Culloca, Sep 28 '18 at 09:25
Possible duplicate of [json\_encode() escaping forward slashes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10210338/json-encode-escaping-forward-slashes) — Ramesh Kithsiri HettiArachchi, Sep 28 '18 at 09:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '18 at 09:34

this will work

<?php

$json = '{"data":{"game":"[[\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\"],[\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\",\"0\",\"0\",\"1\",\"1\",\"0\",\"1\"]]"},
"status":200}';

$array = json_decode($json, true);
$array = json_decode($array['data']['game'], true);


echo '<pre>';
print_r($array);

Convert data from json into an array

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