Question

Trends data from Twitter Search API in JSON.

Grabbing the file using:

$jsonurl = 'http://search.twitter.com/trends.json'; $json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null); $json_output = json_decode($json); 

How do I work with data from this object. As an array? Only really need to extract data from the [name] values.

JSON object contains:

stdClass Object (     [trends] => Array         (             [0] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => Vote                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Vote                 )              [1] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => Halloween                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Halloween                 )              [2] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => Starbucks                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Starbucks                 )              [3] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => #flylady                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23flylady                 )              [4] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => #votereport                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23votereport                 )              [5] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => Election Day                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22Election+Day%22                 )              [6] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => #PubCon                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23PubCon                 )              [7] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => #defrag08                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23defrag08                 )              [8] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => Melbourne Cup                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22Melbourne+Cup%22                 )              [9] => stdClass Object                 (                     [name] => Cheney                     [url] => http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Cheney                 )          )      [as_of] => Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:49:36 +0000 ) 

Answer 1

You mean something like this?

<?php  $jsonurl = 'http://search.twitter.com/trends.json'; $json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null); $json_output = json_decode($json);  foreach ( $json_output->trends as $trend ) {     echo '{$trend->name}\n'; }