Accessing JSON array after json_decode/multidimensional array

Question

I\'m pulling in a search from the Twitter api, fetching the data with file_get_contents and then passing to json_decode which give me this array structure.

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Answer 1

Assuming that you've chosen to decode the JSON as a multi-dimensional array, rather than as objects:

foreach ($results as $tweet) {
    $user = $tweet["from-user"];
    $text = $tweet["text"];

    $entities = $tweet["enities"];
    $urls = $entities["urls"];

    foreach ($urls as $url) {
        echo $url["expanded_url"];
    }
}

et cetera

Answer 2

Just do a print_r($jsonArr); and you will be able to work with your decoded json.

Answer 3

Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [entities] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                (
                                    [urls] => Array
                                        (
                                            [0] => stdClass Object
                                                (
                                                    [expanded_url] => http://instagr.am/p/Vz4Nnbnjd6/
                                                    [url] => http://t.co/WZnUf68j
                                                )

                                        )

                                )

                        )

                    [from_user] => A-user-name
                    [from_user_id] => 457304735
                    [text] => Ich R U #BoysNoize #SuperRola
                )

        )

)

Accessing url:

$json_array['results'][0]->entities[0]->urls[0]->url;

Helpful code:

<?php

$json ='{ "results" : [ { "entities" : 
[ { "urls" : [ { "expanded_url" : "http://instagr.am/p/Vz4Nnbnjd6/",
                    "url" : "http://t.co/WZnUf68j"
                  } ] } ],
        "from_user" : "A-user-name",
        "from_user_id" : 457304735,
        "text" : "Ich R U #BoysNoize #SuperRola"
      } ] }';
$json_array = (array)(json_decode($json));
echo '<pre>';
 //print_r($json_array);

 echo $json_array['results'][0]->entities[0]->urls[0]->url;

?>