Retrieve objects inside json array

Question

I'm trying to retrieve team1 score however i cant seem to figure out how to output this. So far i've got this to work where $obj is the json output.

$obj->recent

JSON

"recent": [
    [
        {
        "match_id": "64886",
        "has_vods": false,
        "game": "dota2",
        "team 1": {
            "score": "",
            "name": "Wheel Whreck While Whistling",
            "bet": "7%"
        },
        "team 2": {
            "score": "",
            "name": "Evil Geniuses DotA2",
            "bet": "68%"
        },
        "live in": "1m 42s",
        "title": "Wheel Whreck... 7% vs 68% Evil...",
        "url": "",
        "tounament": "",
        "simple_title": "Wheel Whreck... vs Evil...",
        "streams": []
        }
]

$obj = json_decode($json); ?!

Rizier123
– Rizier123

2015-02-24 00:28:04 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 0:28 — Rizier123
– Rizier123, Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 0:28
$obj->recent[0][0]->{'team 1'}->score ?

Felix Kling
– Felix Kling

2015-02-24 00:29:26 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 0:29 — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 0:29

Robert · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-24 00:44:39Z

2

You need to use json_decode(); This function returns proper object with arrays and objects inside. Now you need check what is an object and what is an array.

$obj = json_decode($obj, true);
$obj->recent; //array 
$obj->recent[0]; //first element of array
$obj->recent[0][0]; //first element of second array
$obj->recent[0][0]->{'team 1'}; //access to object team 1
$obj->recent[0][0]->{'team 1'}->score; //access to property of object team 1

You can find this helpful to understand what happens;

You can also check example on json_decode documentation

If you use var_dump function on $obj it will show you what is an array and what is an object.

edited Feb 24, 2015 at 0:44

answered Feb 24, 2015 at 0:39

Robert

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wilkesybear · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-24 00:37:55Z

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You'll want to use json_decode to get that into an array. It looks like recent is an array of arrays of objects. So, you'll do something like

$json = json_decode($obj->recent, true);
$team1 = $json[0][0]['team 1']; //should return array
$score = $team1['score']

edit: Thanks for the comment, was missing a true as the second param in json_decode

edited Feb 24, 2015 at 0:37

answered Feb 24, 2015 at 0:31

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Jonathan Kuhn Over a year ago

if you don't pass true as the second parameter to json_decode the result is an object, not an array and this will throw errors.

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