PHP json_decode() not decoding JSON array

Question

I have a JSON string in my database such as this...

a:1:{s:26:"[email protected]";s:26:"[email protected]";}

After I fetch it from the database I use the following...

$my_array = json_decode($row2['json_data']);

The problem is that I'm not getting any array from $my_array. What am I doing wrong?

I've also tried the following...

$my_array = json_decode($row2['json_data'],true);

jraede · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-05 21:42:02Z

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That's not a JSON string. That's a serialized array. You need to do the following:

$my_array = unserialize($row2['json_data']);

answered Dec 5, 2013 at 21:42

jraede

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I had to wait 14 minutes and then had to leave, yeah not a problem, thanks again.