Having trouble decoding JSON response using PHP - php

Question

I am having trouble trying to decode the following json response from api-football using PHP. My knowledge of PHP is very limited so please bear with me.
A sample of the vardump is as follows:
array(1) {
["api"]=>
array(2) {
["results"]=>
int(10)
["fixtures"]=>
array(10) {
[0]=>
array(18) {
["fixture_id"]=>
int(932017)
["league_id"]=>
int(4633)
["league"]=>
array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(10) "Pro League"
["country"]=>
string(12) "Saudi-Arabia"
["logo"]=>
string(52) "https://media.api-sports.io/football/leagues/307.png"
["flag"]=>
string(42) "https://media-3.api-sports.io/flags/sa.svg"
}
["event_date"]=>
string(25) "2023-01-22T20:30:00+03:00"
["event_timestamp"]=>
int(1674408600)
["firstHalfStart"]=>
NULL
["secondHalfStart"]=>
NULL
["round"]=>
string(19) "Regular Season - 14"
["status"]=>
string(11) "Not Started"
["statusShort"]=>
string(2) "NS"
["elapsed"]=>
int(0)
["venue"]=>
string(11) "Mrsool Park"
["referee"]=>
NULL
["homeTeam"]=>
array(3) {
["team_id"]=>
int(2939)
["team_name"]=>
string(8) "Al-Nassr"
["logo"]=>
string(53) "https://media-3.api-sports.io/football/teams/2939.png"
}
["awayTeam"]=>
array(3) {
["team_id"]=>
int(2934)
["team_name"]=>
string(10) "Al-Ettifaq"
["logo"]=>
string(51) "https://media.api-sports.io/football/teams/2934.png"
}
["goalsHomeTeam"]=>
NULL
["goalsAwayTeam"]=>
NULL
["score"]=>
array(4) {
["halftime"]=>
NULL
["fulltime"]=>
NULL
["extratime"]=>
NULL
["penalty"]=>
NULL
}
}
What I am trying basically is printing the fixture for "homeTeam" and "awayTeam". But I am definitely not getting it correctly. Here is my code :
<?php
$url = "https://api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v2/fixtures/team/2939/next/10?rapidapi-key={API-Key}";
$request = wp_remote_get( $url );
if ( ! is_wp_error( $request ) ) {
$body = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $request );
$data = json_decode( $body, true );
}
echo $data["fixtures"][0]["league"]["name"];
echo $data["fixtures"][0]["homeTeam"]["teamname"];
echo $data["fixtures"][0]["awayTeam"]["teamname"];
?>
Here is dump from varexport()
array (
'api' =>
array (
'results' => 10,
'fixtures' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'fixture_id' => 932017,
'league_id' => 4633,
'league' =>
array (
'name' => 'Pro League',
'country' => 'Saudi-Arabia',
'logo' => 'https://media-3.api-sports.io/football/leagues/307.png',
'flag' => 'https://media-3.api-sports.io/flags/sa.svg',
),
'event_date' => '2023-01-22T20:30:00+03:00',
'event_timestamp' => 1674408600,
'firstHalfStart' => NULL,
'secondHalfStart' => NULL,
'round' => 'Regular Season - 14',
'status' => 'Not Started',
'statusShort' => 'NS',
'elapsed' => 0,
'venue' => 'Mrsool Park',
'referee' => NULL,
'homeTeam' =>
array (
'team_id' => 2939,
'team_name' => 'Al-Nassr',
'logo' => 'https://media.api-sports.io/football/teams/2939.png',
),
'awayTeam' =>
array (
'team_id' => 2934,
'team_name' => 'Al-Ettifaq',
'logo' => 'https://media-3.api-sports.io/football/teams/2934.png',
),
'goalsHomeTeam' => NULL,
'goalsAwayTeam' => NULL,
'score' =>
array (
'halftime' => NULL,
'fulltime' => NULL,
'extratime' => NULL,
'penalty' => NULL,
),
),

Answer 1

You aren't accessing the data properly to retrieve the team names, please try this instead:
echo $data["api"]["fixtures"][0]["league"]["name"];
echo $data["api"]["fixtures"][0]["homeTeam"]["team_name"];
echo $data["api"]["fixtures"][0]["awayTeam"]["team_name"];