Decoding JSON Data from a field returns "null"

[Stefanowitsch]

I have a trivial problem that is driving me insane.

I am saving JSON Data into a field:

$groupOverview->json_calendar_data = json_encode($eventsData);
$groupOverview->save();

The JSON string is valid, as I have testet.

In the frontend I turn this string back into an array like this:

$eventsData = json_decode($groupOverview->json_calendar_data, true);
bd($eventsData);

The problem is: It always returns NULL.

Printing out the field value as string works fine though, this is not a field selector issue.

[virtualgadjo]

hi,

looking at your dump, it sounds more like a htmlspecialchars encoding, you may either remove it from the field setting or use htmlspecialchars_decode on the output before json_decode 🙂

have a nice day

[Stefanowitsch]

14 minutes ago, virtualgadjo said:

hi,

looking at your dump, it sounds more like a htmlspecialchars encoding, you may either remove it from the field setting or use htmlspecialchars_decode on the output before json_decode 🙂

have a nice day

Thanks! You are right. After removing the HTML Entity Encoder Text Formatter form the field the decoding works.