How to load json file into Laravel Controller?

Question

I have a JSON file that I would like to load into a controller in Laravel so that I can use the data into my application.

The files path is /storage/app/calendar_Ids.json.

What is the correct way to go about doing this?

Answer 1

Here, this should help you get sorted.

use Storage;

$json = Storage::disk('local')->get('calendar_Ids.json');
$json = json_decode($json, true);