JSON Parsing in PHP Not Working

Question

I'm attempting my first parsing of JSON with PHP and having some issues. I've searched around and even followed some solutions from SO however no luck.

So my PHP looks like:

$string = file_get_contents("SOME_URL_HERE");
$json_a = json_decode($string);

foreach($json_a->items as $mydata)

    {
         echo $mydata->uploader . "\n"; 
    }

And that JSON url shows data that looks like (I've cut this down slightly):

{
 'apiVersion': '2.1',
 'data': {
   'updated': '2013-03-21T16:27:35.191Z',
   'totalItems': 18620,
   'startIndex': 1,
   'itemsPerPage': 5,
   'items': [
     {
       'id': 'DiiDwOJqwQg',
       'uploaded': '2012-12-22T15:20:51.000Z',
       'updated': '2013-03-18T14:44:08.000Z',
       'uploader': 'paramountmoviesuk',

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Parsing is right with all chance, your problem is with data transversing - see Crisp answer here below. — moonwave99
– moonwave99, Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 17:35

Crisp · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21 17:34:32Z

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Looks like items are in data, so you probably need to do this

foreach($json_a->data->items as $mydata)

answered Mar 21, 2013 at 17:34

Crisp

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Sae Us Over a year ago

Awesome thats it! I see what how to handle/traverse now - cheers!

aacanakin · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21 17:37:36Z

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try json_decode( $string, true); then you can easily reach with $mydata['uploader']

EDIT : you can loop it through with this statement if you don't want to use object mapping;

foreach( json_a['data']['items'] as $my_data)
{
    echo $my_data['uploader'] . "\n";
}

if it's not working, please make sure that it is a valid json in this website

edited Mar 21, 2013 at 17:37

answered Mar 21, 2013 at 17:31

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Sae Us Over a year ago

Tried that from what i read on php.net tutorials. Didn't work

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