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How To Read JSON File in Laravel 8 Tutorial

January 6, 2022 by Sanjay Kumar
 Table of Contents
 Laravel Installation
 JSON Data Preparation
 Create Controller
 Create Route
 Application Testing

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Inside this article we will see the concept i.e How to read json file in laravel 8. Article
contains classified information. It will give the complete idea of json file reading in
laravel 8.
This tutorial will be super easy to understand and it’s steps are easier to implement
in your code as well. If you learn reading json file here, you can use the same
concept in data seeding to database via json file. This is step by step tutorial in
laravel 8 about json file reading.

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Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation
We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system
should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install
composer in system.
Here is the command to create a laravel project-

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

$ php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

JSON Data Preparation

Let’s consider a .json file in application. We have a students.json inside /storage
folder.
{
"students":[
{
"name": "Sanjay Kumar",
"email": "sanjay@gmail.com"
},
{
"name": "Ashish Kumar",
"email": "ashish@gmail.com"
},
{
"name": "Dhananjay Negi",
"email": "dj@gmail.com"
},
{
"name": "Vijay Rohila",
"email": "vijay@gmail.com"
}
]
}
You can place this .json file either in /storage folder or /public folder. We will read
only by specifying the path.
Create Controller
Open project into terminal and run this artisan command.

$ php artisan make:controller SiteController

It will create a file SiteController.php inside /app/Http/Controllers folder.
Assuming /storage folder.
00:03/03:27

Open SiteController.php and write this complete code into it.

SiteController.php
<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class SiteController extends Controller

{
public function index()
{
$students = json_decode(file_get_contents(storage_path() . "/students.json"), true);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($students);
}
}

Concept

$students = json_decode(file_get_contents(storage_path() .
"/students.json"), true);
Here, we are parsing students.json file. storage_path() is a Laravel 8 helper
function which returns the path upto /storage folder.
If you have taken /public folder then you should use public_path() in place of it.
json_decode returns the data in object format. But putting true as second value it
returns the data into array format.
Now, we can insert the .json file data into database etc.

Create Route
Open web.php from /routes folder. Add this route into it.
web.php

//...

use App\Http\Controllers\SiteController;

Route::get("data", [SiteController::class, "index"]);

//...

Application Testing
Open project to terminal and type the command to start development server

$ php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/data

We hope this article helped you to learn How To Read JSON File in Laravel 8 Tutorial
in a very detailed way.

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