Decode json like string in php

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I have a string that is stored in a MySQL database (joomla) and starts with the below. Does anyone know what type of string this is and how I can decode it to an array in PHP? It looks similar to JSON but I am unsure.

a:4:{s:7:"Enabled";s:3:"yes";s:9:"StoreData";a:3:{i:1;a:9:{s:2:"id";s:1:"1";s:7:"Enabled";s:3:"yes";s:4:"Name";a:1:{i:1;s:13:

Armen · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09 09:12:45Z

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its serialized string you have to unserialize it, manual - http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php

$your_string = unserialize($encoded_string)

where $encoded_string is the string from your db

answered Dec 9, 2015 at 9:12

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