PHP- Decode JSON

Question

I have the following script to get search results from an API and then slice the array and dump it, I am having trouble decoding the JSON into an array, it returns Arr

Answer 1

Separate your php from html please, use indentation and:

$array = json_decode($data, TRUE); //second param used for associative array return

Example #1 json_decode() examples

The above example will output:
object(stdClass)#1 (5) {
    ["a"] => int(1)
    ["b"] => int(2)
    ["c"] => int(3)
    ["d"] => int(4)
    ["e"] => int(5)
}

array(5) {
    ["a"] => int(1)
    ["b"] => int(2)
    ["c"] => int(3)
    ["d"] => int(4)
    ["e"] => int(5)
}

P.S: From the Bible (http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php)