Convert string (similar json format) to object or array

Question

I receive string "{success: false, errors: { reason: 'text text text' }}" by CURL, how to convert this string to array or object?

String '{"success": "false"....}' may be converted to object by json_decode, but I have string without qoutes.

Answer 1

Use this regex first (it adds quotes)

$json = preg_replace ('/(?<!")(?<!\w)(\w+)(?!")(?!\w)/u', '"$1"', $string);

After that, you can simply use json_decode()

$array = json_decode ($json);

Update

I found this script somewhere:

function json_fix_quotes ($string){
    $string = str_replace("{",'{"',$string);
    $string = str_replace(":'",'":"',$string);
    $string = str_replace("',",'","',$string);
    $string = str_replace("'}",'"}',$string);
    return $string;
}

Try that instead of the regex