How to return Json data array with PHP/Laravel?-CodePudding

I'm devoloping an api with Laravel and I have to get the data of a json file in a url, this is my code:

public function index(){
    $json_file=file_get_contents("url that I'm using");
    $json_str = json_decode($json_file);
    
    echo $json_str;
}

The JSON file:

{
  "success":true,
  "clients": [
      [
       "name": "Tyler Durden",
       "job": "leader of the ..."
      ],
  ]
}

But when I access my route that call the index() I get this error:

Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

I want to get any pair of clients and save them, can someone help me?

CodePudding user response：

You can't print an object using echo, to print an object you can use

print_r($json_str);
var_dump($json_str);

In your case you just need a return statement

return $json_str;

In Laravel you can also, do this

return response()->json($json_str);

CodePudding user response：

you are trying to print a json instead of a string. echo will only print a string.