json can't be displayed as php array

Question

The examples I checked seems simple but I can't figure it out what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to convert and display JSON text as object array in PHP.

$json = '{"color1":red, "color2":blue, "color3":yellow}';
    $arr= json_decode($json, true);
    print_r($arr);

It doesn't output anything. but when I print $json, the output is just fine

Musa · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-06 03:23:25Z

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Well that's not json, try

$json = '{"color1":"red", "color2":"blue", "color3":"yellow"}';
$arr= json_decode($json, true);
print_r($arr);

notice the strings are quoted with ", also see http://json.org

answered Sep 6, 2013 at 3:23

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OneScrewLoose Over a year ago

oops, right that's why I was feeling iffy with my json.. I copied the json from a website. thanks

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