Adressing PHP array decoded from JSON

Question

I\'m loading a JSON array and decode it to an PHP array

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Answer 1

This is because json_decode() with no parameters attempts to convert your json string to an stdClass object. If you want to convert it to an array, you need to set the 2nd parameters (the $assoc boolean) to true:

$json = file_get_contents('LINK TO JSON OUTPUT'); 
$array = json_decode($json, true);