How to parse this json data in php?

Question

{"data":[{"name":"John","sex":"M","address":{"unit":"7"}}]}

Answer 1

You can use json_decode() method of PHP.

<?php

// Store JSON data in a PHP variable
$json = '{"data":[{"name":"John","sex":"M","address":{"unit":"7"}}]}';

var_dump(json_decode($json));
?>

Live example is here

By default the json_decode() function returns an object

Answer 2

<?php
$jsonData ='{"data":[{"name":"John","sex":"M","address":{"unit":"7"}}]}';
$json_decode = json_decode($jsonData, true);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($json_decode); 
echo '</pre>';

echo $json_decode['data']['0']['name'];
?>