Question

I am getting the value from my JSON like so:

$adarray = json_decode($addata);
if($adarray->{'zone'} == 'homepage'){
    $chan = 'homepage';
}else if($adarray->{'subcat'} == 'main'){
    $chan = $adarray->{'cat'};
}else{
    $chan = $adarray->{'subcat'};
}
echo $chan;

It the else if and else it works perfectly however, I am having trouble with the first part:

When this JSON data is parsed into the if statement it should return ‘homepage’ yet it just returns the JSON data back, why?

{"zone":"homepage"}

Answer 1

Tried the same code on php tester, and got the correct output. Once see if your code is correct.

Try this yourself on http://phptester.net/ :

<?php
$adarray = json_decode('{"zone":"homepage"}');
if($adarray->{'zone'} == 'homepage'){
    $chan = 'homepage';
}else if($adarray->{'subcat'} == 'main'){
    $chan = $adarray->{'cat'};
}else{
    $chan = $adarray->{'subcat'};
}
echo $chan;