Cannot use object of type stdClass as array?

Question

I get a strange error using json_decode(). It decode correctly the data (I saw it using print_r), but when I try to access to info inside the array I get:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in C:\Users\Dail\software\abs.php on line 108 

I only tried to do: $result['context'] where $result has the data returned by json_decode()

How can I read values inside this array?

Answer 1

Use the second parameter of json_decode to make it return an array:

$result = json_decode($data, true); 

Answer 2

The function json_decode() returns an object by default.

You can access the data like this:

var_dump($result->context); 

If you have identifiers like from-date (the hyphen would cause a PHP error when using the above method) you have to write:

var_dump($result->{'from-date'}); 

If you want an array you can do something like this:

$result = json_decode($json, true); 

Or cast the object to an array:

$result = (array) json_decode($json);