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I have a PHP script that uses CURL to return a JSON result that looks //Curl set up code $result = curl_exec($ch); //Error checking code $json = json_decode($result, true); //Code to process r...
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Charlie Brumbaugh
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2020-11-30T20:17:49Z (about 4 years ago)
What are the pros and cons of using objects vs associative arrays for JSON results of a CURL request in PHP?
I have a PHP script that uses CURL to return a JSON result that looks ``` //Curl set up code $result = curl_exec($ch); //Error checking code $json = json_decode($result, true); //Code to process result. ``` Now with the `json_decode` function, I could set it to return process the JSON into a PHP object or to an associative array. What would the pros and cons of using objects vs associative arrays for the output of the `json_decode` function?