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Internal server error while decoding a json file

I'm opening a JSON file and decoding the content of it, so I can insert the content into my database using MySQL:

[{"publisher": "some publisher", "img": "url to image", "title": "some title", "platform": "some platform", "year": "2012", "genre": "some genre", "desc": "this is the description", "id": "1", "developer": "some developer"}]

This is just 1 one of the entries in the file. The JSON file contains more than 10000 of these. I'm getting internal server while using json_decode($file). Reading the file and var_dump($file) works just fine. So my question is, is this a good JSON file? Or how can I decode and insert it in the database?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • There is nothing wrong with that fragment of JSON.

    You should look at the specific error message reported (either by running the PHP outside a web server, or by looking in the error logs for it). Internal Server Error just means "Something went wrong, an admin/developer should look at the logs".