diff --git a/reference/json/functions/json-decode.xml b/reference/json/functions/json-decode.xml
index 7caaa05cba..8bdc07f43f 100644
--- a/reference/json/functions/json-decode.xml
+++ b/reference/json/functions/json-decode.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="function.json-decode" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>json_decode</refname>
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ array(5) {
 ]]>
     </screen>
    </example>
+   <example>
+    <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+
+$json = '{"foo-bar": 12345}';
+
+$obj = json_decode($json);
+print $obj->{'foo-bar'}; // 12345
+
+?>
+]]>
+    </programlisting>
+   </example>
   </para>
  </refsect1>