title: JSON to PHP Array using file_get_contents
body: <p>I am trying to fetch the below json content using a magazine api.
  The output of the json is like this. i want the below json to convert to php array.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
  "bpath": "http://www.sampledomain.com/",
  "clist": [
      {
          "cid": "11",
          "display_type": "grid",
          "ctitle": "abc",
          "acount": "71",
          "alist": [
              {
                  "aid": "6865",
                  "adate": "2 Hours ago",
                  "atitle": "test",
                  "adesc": "test desc",
                  "aimg": "",
                  "aurl": "?nid=6865",
                  "weburl": "news.php?nid=6865",
                  "cmtcount": "0"
              },
  
              {
                  "aid": "6857",
                  "adate": "20 Hours ago",
                  "atitle": "test1",
        "adesc": "test desc1",
        "aimg": "",
                  "aurl": "?nid=6857",
                  "weburl": "news.php?nid=6857",
                  "cmtcount": "0"
              }
          ]
      },
      {
          "cid": "1",
          "display_type": "grid",
          "ctitle": "test1",
    "acount": "2354",
          "alist": [
              {
                  "aid": "6851",
                  "adate": "1 Days ago",
                  "atitle": "test123",
        "adesc": "test123 desc",
        "aimg": "",
                  "aurl": "?nid=6851",
                  "weburl": "news.php?nid=6851",
                  "cmtcount": "7"
              },
              {
                  "aid": "6847",
                  "adate": "2 Days ago",
                  "atitle": "test12345",
        "adesc": "test12345 desc",
        "aimg": "",
                  "aurl": "?nid=6847",
                  "weburl": "news.php?nid=6847",
                  "cmtcount": "7"
              }
          ]
      },
  
  ]
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My code looks like this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php 
  $json_url = "http://api.testmagazine.com/test.php?type=menu";
  $json = file_get_contents($json_url);
  $data = json_decode($json, TRUE);
  echo "&lt;pre&gt;";
  print_r($data);
  echo "&lt;/pre&gt;";
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above code returns an empty array. :(
  How is it possible to convert the above JSON to php object array.
  I am helpless.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks 
  Haan</p>