Question

I am using curl to return json data from a service. The var dump works fine, however when i try to access a key value pair i get nothing? One of the keys is status, which is what i am trying to retrieve in my if statement.

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, '$AgentString');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array (
    "Accept: application/json"
));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);

$json = json_decode(utf8_encode($result), true);

var_dump($json["return"]);

if (isset($json->status)) {
   // do something
   print("yes");
} else {
print("No");
}

Answer 1

Since the second parameter in json_decode is true, the result would be returned as an associative array.

$json->status

Should be

$json["status"]