{"id":1550,"date":"2021-01-26T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-array-and-string-offset-access-syntax-with-curly-braces-is-deprecated-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T05:39:11","slug":"solved-array-and-string-offset-access-syntax-with-curly-braces-is-deprecated-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-array-and-string-offset-access-syntax-with-curly-braces-is-deprecated-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Array and String Offset Access Syntax With Curly Braces is Deprecated in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe way to succeed is to double your error rate!\u201d best quote of the day but not relevant for developers as glued errors are always frustrated in Magento 2, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Especially, it\u2019s so annoying when you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with your code, where\u2019s wrong and why it displays the error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever been in this kind of situation? Ever faced an error that says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 exception(s):<br>Exception #0 (Exception): Deprecated Functionality: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in \/vendor\/magento\/zendframework1\/library\/Zend\/Json\/Encoder.php on line 561<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To solve the above error of&nbsp;<em><strong>array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em>, check the below solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution For Array and String Offset Access Syntax With Curly Braces is Deprecated in Magento 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You just have to replace curly braces with square brackets in&nbsp;<strong>\/vendor\/magento\/zendframework1\/library\/Zend\/Json\/Decoder.php<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">$utf8 .= $chrs{$i};<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replace with,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">$utf8 .= $chrs[$i];<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Encoder.php file of&nbsp;<strong>\/vendor\/magento\/zendframework1\/library\/Zend\/Json\/Encoder.php&nbsp;<\/strong>, replace curly braces with square brackets after every&nbsp;<strong>$utf8<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>_utf82utf16&nbsp;<\/strong>function.<br>i.e:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">chr(0x07 &amp; (ord($utf8{0}) >> 2))<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replace with,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">chr(0x07 &amp; (ord($utf8[0]) >> 2))<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solved!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to share the solution with Magento community via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe way to succeed is to double your error rate!\u201d best quote of the day but not relevant for developers as glued errors are always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14532,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}