Question

$args = array(
'name' => 'test',
'description' => 'xxxx',
'start_time' => 'xxxx',
'end_time' => 'xxxxx'
); 
$target_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/events";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Returns

 {"id":"xxxx"}

I Want this id as $id in php So i can use It further too..
thanks.

Answer 1

You would use json_decode for this, check out this example:

$Object = json_decode($result);
$id = $Object->id;

echo $id; //return: xxxx

You can always just use $Object->id in place of resetting it to the $id variable, but it doesnt matter.

json_decode() documentation: https://www.php.net/json_decode