Question

using the following, I can display all information as an array in two formats, however I wish to assign a value to a variable and use e.g just the names rather than a complete screen dump.

$url = ‘http://myurl’;

$json = file_get_contents($url);

$dump=(var_dump(json_decode($json, true)));

$json_output = json_decode($json); print_r($json_output)

This is probably very easy, my apologies.

Answer 1

You can use:

$object = json_decode($json);

This will create an object which you could then access the properties of like such..

echo $object->whatever;

Or you can use json_decode like this:

$array = json_decode($json, TRUE);

This create an array which you can access the indiviual keys of like so..

echo $array['whatever'];