Question

This is my code:

$array = array(
"Birds" => 
array(
'group' => 1,
"Bird" => array(

array('id' => 1, 'img' => "img1.png", 'title' => "kate"),
array('id' => 2, 'img2' => "img2.png", 'title' => "mary")
)) );


$json = json_encode($array);
echo json_decode($json);

OUTPUT IS:

//JSON OUTPUT {"Birds":{"group":1,"Bird":[{"id":1,"img":"img1.png","title":"cardinal"},{"id":2,"img2":"img2.png","title":"bluejay"}]}}

Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

Answer 1

You have to pass the second parameter of json_decode as true, more info about these parameters at: http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

so your echo json_decode($json); should be changed to this:

print_r(json_decode($json, true));

echo is changed to print_r since the output is an array not a string …