Issue
Trying to echo a couple of values from the CURL JSON response so i can put them in to a foreach loop but i can only get single indexed values to work.
$request = curl_init($api); // initiate curl object
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // set to 0 to eliminate header info from response
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Returns response data instead of TRUE(1)
//curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // uncomment if you get no gateway response and are using HTTPS
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
));
$response = (string)curl_exec($request); // execute curl fetch and store results in $response
curl_close($request); // close curl object
$result = json_decode($response, true); // true turns it into an array
echo 'First Name: ' . $result['first_name'] . '<br />'; // why doesnt this work
echo 'Last Name: ' . $result[0]['last_name'] . '<br />'; // yet i can return the first value
Example Array output
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 34761
[first_name] => A
[last_name] => Bailes
[clinic] =>
[phone] => 7409923279
[fax] => 7409926740
[address1] => 507 Mulberry Heights Rd
[address2] =>
[city] => Pomeroy
[subdivision] => OH
[country_code] =>
[postal_code] => 45769-9573
[timezone] => Array
(
[timezone_type] => 3
[timezone] => America/New_York
)
[state] => OH
)
)
I have json decode set to true for array output
$result = json_decode($response, true); // true turns it into an array
but when i try to echo the 'first_name' values it just returns empty.
echo 'First Name: ' . $result['first_name'] . '<br />'; // why doesnt this work
Yet i can return an indexed value
echo 'First Name: ' . $result[0]['first_name'] . '<br />';
What am i doing wrong here?
Solution
Your result array is nested 2 deep. $result
is an array of arrays. So:
$result[0]['first_name']
or
foreach ($result as $r) {
echo $r['first_name'];
}
Answered By - Matt S Answer Checked By - Robin (WPSolving Admin)