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I have a cURL request like so
$ch = curl_init();
$data = 'filter=year(StartTime)' . urlencode(' eq 2013 and ') .'month(StartTime)'. urlencode(' eq 06') ;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://url.com/id()/events?$".$data);
$headers = array(
'Accept: application/json',
'Content-type: application/json',
'X-ApiKey : XXXXXXXXXX'
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$result = json_decode($response, true);
?>
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<br><br>
<?php
echo "the name". $result['Name'];
?>
</body>
</html>
This is what it prints.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 218 Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Expires: -1 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET- WEBSRV X-Powered-By: ARR/2.5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET - ARR02 Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:52:31 GMT [{"Id":1079,"Name":"Test ","Status":1,"MemberId":1308,"Description":"This is a Test Event","SponsoredBy":null,"StartTime":"2013-06-30T12:00:00","EndTime":"2013-06-30T23:59:00","SearchDescription":null,"Types":[1,4,6]}]
the name
How can I put this into a Associative array?
I've tried this
json_decode($response,true));
and this
ksort($response);
and this
var_dump($response);
and nothing seems to work..
I want to be able to output like this
echo $reponse['Name'];
Any help? Thanks
739
json_decode gives you an associative array when you pass "true" as the second argument:
$json = '[{"Id":1079,"Name":"Test ","Status":1,"MemberId":1308,"Description":"This is a Test Event","SponsoredBy":null,"StartTime":"2013-06-30T12:00:00","EndTime":"2013-06-30T23:59:00","SearchDescription":null,"Types":[1,4,6]}]';
$response = json_decode($json, true);
echo $response[0]["Name"];
gives:
Test
Edit:
json_decode() is giving you back an array of arrays, so you need to reference the array that is at position [0] in the response, if you get me.
I've done that above in my example with $response[0], but have a look at this example, hope it makes it clearer!
$result = json_decode($json, true);
var_dump($result);
gives:
array(1) {
[0]=>
array(10) {
["Id"]=>
int(1079)
["Name"]=>
string(5) "Test "
["Status"]=>
int(1)
["MemberId"]=>
int(1308)
["Description"]=>
string(20) "This is a Test Event"
["SponsoredBy"]=>
NULL
["StartTime"]=>
string(19) "2013-06-30T12:00:00"
["EndTime"]=>
string(19) "2013-06-30T23:59:00"
["SearchDescription"]=>
NULL
["Types"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(4)
[2]=>
int(6)
}
}
}
then.. to access the array itself:
$result = json_decode($json, true);
$result = $result[0]; // let's just reassign this to get the array we want
var_dump($result);
gives:
array(10) {
["Id"]=>
int(1079)
["Name"]=>
string(5) "Test "
["Status"]=>
int(1)
["MemberId"]=>
int(1308)
["Description"]=>
string(20) "This is a Test Event"
["SponsoredBy"]=>
NULL
["StartTime"]=>
string(19) "2013-06-30T12:00:00"
["EndTime"]=>
string(19) "2013-06-30T23:59:00"
["SearchDescription"]=>
NULL
["Types"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(4)
[2]=>
int(6)
}
}
And now you can access the various elements of the array directly:
$result = json_decode($json, true);
$result = $result[0];
echo "Name: ". $result["Name"] . "\nID: " . $result["Id"] . "\nDescription: " . $result["Description"] . "\n";
now we get back:
Name: Test
ID: 1079
Description: This is a Test Event
hope that makes sense!
93
By default curl_exec outputs the data it gets from the server to the standard output so your $response variable doesn't really have the actual response data in it. If you want to get the data in a variable set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option before calling curl_exec.
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE)
answered Oct 30 '25 08:10
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