Question

Using Twitter’s search API, I’m being returned a helluva lot of information that is essentially extraneous to me. I’d like to populate an array with just the content of the tweets, none of the metadata.

Here’s an example of a request and the response. So basically, I’d like to populate an array with the values of the text key.

I assume the answer would like in some kind of for loop however I don’t know where to begin.

Answer 1

try this:

Convert JSON to Array PHP

<?php
    //get json
    $foo= file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=stackoverflow&rpp=10&result_type=recent&lang=en');

    //convert to array
    $var = json_decode( $foo , true );

    //print array
    print_r( $var );
?>

Convert Array PHP to JSON

<?php
    //declarate array
    $foo = array( 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 , 6 => 7, 8);

    //convert to json
    $var = json_encode( $foo );

    //print json
    print_r( $var );
?>

Read:

As of PHP 5.2.0, the JSON extension is bundled and compiled into PHP
by default.

See And Read This JSON PHP Documentation

AND

If you use PHP < 5.2, use JSON Class Objects

Bye!