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<?php function parse_json($json){ $data = []; preg_match_all('/'.'"(\w+)":(\[.+\]|{.+}|\w+|"[a-zA-Z0-9_ ]+")(?:,|})'.'/', $json, $matches); array_shift($matches); $combined = array_combine($matches[0], $matches[1]); foreach ($combined as $key => $value) { $maybe_parse = parse_json($value); if(!empty($maybe_parse)){ $value = $maybe_parse; } if(is_string($value) && preg_match('/'.'^".+"$'.'/', $value)){ $value = trim($value, '"'); } $data[$key] = $value; } return $data; } var_export(parse_json('{"array":[1,2,3],"boolean":true,"null":null,"number":123,"object":{"a":"b","c":"d","e":"f"},"string":"Hello World"}')); print PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL; var_export(parse_json('{"glossary":{"title":"example glossary","GlossDiv":{"title":"S","GlossList":{"GlossEntry":{"ID":"SGML","SortAs":"SGML","GlossTerm":"Standard Generalized Markup Language","Acronym":"SGML","Abbrev":"ISO 8879:1986","GlossDef":{"para":"A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.","GlossSeeAlso":["GML","XML"]},"GlossSee":"markup"}}}}}'));
Output for 7.1.25 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4, 8.3.6 - 8.3.7
array ( 'array' => '[1,2,3]', 'boolean' => 'true', 'null' => 'null', 'number' => '123', 'object' => array ( 'a' => 'b', 'c' => 'd', 'e' => 'f', ), 'string' => 'Hello World', ) array ( 'glossary' => array ( 'title' => 'example glossary', 'GlossDiv' => array ( 'title' => 'S', 'GlossList' => array ( 'GlossEntry' => array ( 'ID' => 'SGML', 'SortAs' => 'SGML', 'GlossTerm' => 'Standard Generalized Markup Language', 'Acronym' => 'SGML', 'GlossDef' => array ( 'GlossSeeAlso' => '["GML","XML"]', ), 'GlossSee' => 'markup', ), ), ), ), )
Output for 8.3.5
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 array ( 'array' => '[1,2,3]', 'boolean' => 'true', 'null' => 'null', 'number' => '123', 'object' => array ( 'a' => 'b', 'c' => 'd', 'e' => 'f', ), 'string' => 'Hello World', ) array ( 'glossary' => array ( 'title' => 'example glossary', 'GlossDiv' => array ( 'title' => 'S', 'GlossList' => array ( 'GlossEntry' => array ( 'ID' => 'SGML', 'SortAs' => 'SGML', 'GlossTerm' => 'Standard Generalized Markup Language', 'Acronym' => 'SGML', 'GlossDef' => array ( 'GlossSeeAlso' => '["GML","XML"]', ), 'GlossSee' => 'markup', ), ), ), ), )

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