Question

I need to get a value from an array the array is made like this

$resultOfAdd[“CaseAndMatterResult”][“ResultInfo”][“ReturnCode”];

and it gives an output of this

Array (
    [AddCaseAndMatterResult] => Array (
        [ResultInfo] => Array (
            [ReturnCode] => OK
            [Errors] =>
            [Warnings] =>
        )
        [CaseID] => 4880062
        [MatterID] => 4950481
        [LeadID] => 0
        [CustomerID] => 0
    )
)

All I want to do is put the part "MatterID" into a variable. how would I achieve this.

I have tried

$matterID = array($resultOfAdd["MatterID"]);

and this does not work.

Answer 1

This is a multi-dimensional, associative array. Think of it like floors of a building. The key MatterID does not live in the first dimension (floor), rather on the second, in the AddCaseAndMatterResult sub-array.

$matterID = $resultOfAdd['AddCaseAndMatterResult']['MatterID']

Successive dimensions of an array are specified with successive square-brackets, each naming the key to look in (this is true of most languages).