Rewrite raw json in PHP

How can I convert the given code/text into PHP? What would be the PHP syntax of it? There are like some arrays and some objects like items. I would like to restructure it into PHP and be able to convert back to it’s original format if necessary.

{
  "status": "Pending",
  "client": "John",
  "invoice": {
    "series": "INV",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "total": 20,
    "items": [
      {
        "id": 5478,
        "name": "Adapter Lenovo",
        "amount": 1,
        "cost": 10,
      }
    ]
  },
  "parcels": [
    {
      "quantity": "1",
      "weight": 2000
    }
  ],
  "sender": {
    "company": "string",
    "address": {
      "city": "Tallin",
      "street": "New Street"
    }
  },
  "recipient": {
    "name": "Peter",
    "phone": 30258554455
  }
}

>Solution :

You can convert the string into a an array or object using json_decode()

$json_string = '{
  "status": "Pending",
  "client": "John",
  "invoice": {
    "series": "INV",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "total": 20,
    "items": [
      {
        "id": 5478,
        "name": "Adapter Lenovo",
        "amount": 1,
        "cost": 10
      }
    ]
  },
  "parcels": [
    {
      "quantity": "1",
      "weight": 2000
    }
  ],
  "sender": {
    "company": "string",
    "address": {
      "city": "Tallin",
      "street": "New Street"
    }
  },
  "recipient": {
    "name": "Peter",
    "phone": 30258554455
  }
}';

$arr = json_decode($json_string, true);

var_dump($arr);

And if you want to revert is back to a json string, use json_encode()

$json_string = json_encode( $arr );

json_decode – https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

json_encode – https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

*note – the json string you provided in your original question was invalid (there’s a comma after cost).