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title: 'You can make PHP throw an exception when decoding JSON if the value isn''t valid JSON'
tweet_id: '1454133803056775178'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2021-44
author_username: SteveTheBauman
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created_at: 2021-10-29T17:11:29+00:00
slug: you-can-make-php-throw-an-exception-when-decoding-json-if-the-value-isnt-valid-json
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Had no idea you could have PHP throw a built-in exception when decoding JSON -- I've always done this manually until today 😭