preg_match_all is not working or showing result

Question

{"popUp":false,"token":"NS2938f08ubjk765vhjJBKJB78vhjeec1_m1_7"} This is curl response in JSON, and i want to extract token from this JSON response.

i used preg_match_all function but its showing null

here is my code

preg_match_all('/^"token":"\s*([^;]*)/mi', $result, $matches);
$token = array();
foreach($matches[1] as $item) {
    parse_str($item, $newtkn);
    $token = array_merge($token, $newtkn);
}
var_dump($newtkn)

i want to store that token in $newtkn variable and echo it on the screen how do i do that ?

Answer 1

Probably way easier to use json_decode() as it follows:

$result = '{"popUp":false,"token":"NS2938f08ubjk765vhjJBKJB78vhjeec1_m1_7"}';

$arr = json_decode($result, true);

$newtkn = $arr['token'];

echo $newtkn; //NS2938f08ubjk765vhjJBKJB78vhjeec1_m1_7

Or if you prefer an oriented object answer:

$result = '{"popUp":false,"token":"NS2938f08ubjk765vhjJBKJB78vhjeec1_m1_7"}';

$obj = json_decode($result);

$newtkn = $obj->token;

echo $newtkn; //NS2938f08ubjk765vhjJBKJB78vhjeec1_m1_7