I got a json file like this:
[{
city: "myCity",
lat: 11.1111,
format: "etc",
lng: 1.11,
street: "mystreet",
hours: [{
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "16-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "11-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "18-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "12-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "20-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "13-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "22-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "14-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "24-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "15-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "26-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "16-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0230",
B: "2200",
C: "28-04-2012"
}, {
A: "0130",
B: "2200",
C: "17-04-2012"
}],
housenumber: "12"
}]
Firebug parses this without a problem. It says "hours" is an object that has certain objects in it that contains a F, U and D. But I cannot get parse it with the regular php parsers. I was almost changing it to XML, but that would cost me a lot of time and there must be some parser that can handle this format if firebug can handle it!
I'm certain this is a duplicate, but can't find it. And because comments go ignored, I'll just add it as answer again.
If you need to decode a Javascript expression (it doesn't have key quotes as JSON would require it) you can use:
http://pear.php.net/package/Services_JSON
which has some fallback logic to process unquoted keys
http://include-once.org/p/upgradephp/#upgrade.php.prefixed
with up_json_decode($json, FALSE, 512, JSON_PARSE_JAVASCRIPT)
As inadvisable alternative there are some regex and string patching workarounds for pre-processing unquoted keys.
$obj = json_decode($json);