How to echo JSON in PHP

Question

I just need a little help with using cURL and JSON in PHP since I never actually got around to doing this. What I am trying to accomplish is to take the ign of the payment and echoing it, also limiting on how much can be posted by the latest donation first.

URL: http://api.buycraft.net/query?secret=83d043249170343dd048d4da62387f6cb39ed97f&action=payments

Solution 1

if you want to encode or decode an array from or to JSON you can use these functions

$myJSONString = json_encode($myArray);
$myArray = json_decode($myString);

json_encode will result in a JSON string, built from an (multi-dimensional) array. json_decode will result in an Array, built from a well formed JSON string

with json_decode you can take the results from the API and only output what you want, for example:

echo $myArray['payload']['ign'];

Solution 2

Native JSON support has been included in PHP since 5.2 in the form of methods json_encode() and json_decode(). You would use the first to output a PHP variable in JSON.

Comments

[Itsyuka]

Should of mentioned I am a noob with curl and json.

[Itsyuka]

Ahh thanks it was actually print $myArray->payload["0"]->ign;