Internal server error while decoding a json file

Question

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.

Answer 1

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".

Answer 2

If the file is so big, it could be, that php runs out of memory or execution time, but as said before, start by looking in log files.

Answer 3

Again you need errors but unlike the others stating look at log file i do understand some times you can't certain Hosts for example,

To enable your script to show the error use

error_reporting(2047); 
ini_set("display_errors",1);

If your are getting a memory error use ini_set('memory_limit', '128M');

This should allow it if not or an error is throw because your calling ini_set you need to contact your server host and ask them to allow more memory

Answer 4

I had this same error. I fixed it by changing my json_decode($whatever) code to json_decode($whatever, TRUE). I hope this helps someone.