Question

Here is the JSON being pulled in from a feed:

{
 "query": {
  "count": 1,
  "created": "2011-12-20T14:52:50Z",
  "lang": "en-US",
  "results": {
   "nowplaying": {
    "song": {
     "title": "Silent Night",
     "artist": "Jaci Velasquez",
     "time": "2011-12-20 09:49:51"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}

I know the feed is coming correctly. I am trying to pull in the “title” with the following, but it doesn’t seem to work:

<?php foreach($feed->query->results->nowplaying as $item) { ?>
            <?php echo $item->title; ?>
<?php  } ?>

I’m not sure what I am missing. Any tips?! Thanks!

Answer 1

How are you getting and parsing it? If you are getting it as a string, which you most likely are, you first need to parse it with json_decode. You can specify true as the second parameter to get an array instead of an object, it’s easier to work with.

$feed = json_decode($json, true);

Then you can access individual properties like an associative array. Seeing as there are no arrays in that JSON, there is no need for any loop.

$song = $feed['query']['results']['nowplaying']['song']['title'];