how to get the value from this json response using php

Question

i need to extract the exam from this json response using php

cb({"data": [{"map": {"exam": ["e", "x", "a", "m"]}, "words": false, "o": ["exam", "exam", "exam"]}]},150)

Answer 1

The problem here is that the answer is wrapped in a callback function cb() which is not valid JSON. The JSON part is the parameter that is passed to this function (everything between and including {...}). So the first step is to remove this "outer function":

$json = trim($json, 'cb(),150');
$data = json_decode($json, true);
$exam = $json['data'][0]['map']['exam'];

Reference: trim, json_decode, arrays

This only works if the number at the end only consists of 1, 5 or 0. You can either add all digits to the second parameter of trim or use a combination of strripos and substr to chop off everything after }.