Parse JSON Data from File upload

I have an input that select json file

in my controller, I did

dd(Input::all());

I got

My goal is to parse the JSON file that I got and loop through them.

I've tried

$string = file_get_contents(Input::get('fileinput'));
$json = json_decode($string, true);

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Questions

How would one go about and debug this further ?

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I'm open to any suggestions at this moment.

Any hints/suggestions / helps on this be will be much appreciated!

via Chebli Mohamed