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PHP File Handling with PHP Parsing Specific Formats Review JSON

Posted by princess mudyahoto
princess mudyahoto
18,502 Points

file handling with php

Complete the following statement to turn a JSON file into an object:

$books = (file_get_contents('data.json'));

1 Answer

Tomas Svojanovsky
Tomas Svojanovsky
26,680 Points
Tomas Svojanovsky
Tomas Svojanovsky
26,680 Points

Hello, look at http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php . You need two functions to work with json json_decode vs json_encode. Check additional parameters for specific format.