Reading data from an array with json - php

Question

In a php script I have the following
$jsonurlpers = "https://api.openarch.nl/1.1/records/show.json?archive=nha&identifier=8554bfba-9fd9-4ca2-876c-feb7da095d6c";
$jsondatapers = file_get_contents($jsonurlpers);
That string I want to decode with the next command
$jsonpers = json_decode($jsondatapers ,true)[0];
But somewhere it did not work...
When I go to to the #jsonulpers I see :
Event
EventType "Overlijden"
EventDate
Year "1901"
Month "7"
Day "7"
EventPlace
Place "Egmond-Binnen"
RelationEP
Can some one tell me how I can read the value behind EventType in a variable? I tried different options but none works...
Thanks,
Fred
I did try this
e.g.
$itemevent = $jsonpers['Event'];
$itemeventtype = $itemevent['EventType']);
abs I thought
$itemeventtype would have a value of "Overlijden", but it was empty

Answer 1

The (json-)output from the url you gave looks like this:
{
"Event" : {
"EventType" : "Overlijden",
"EventDate" : {
"Month" : "7",
"Day" : "7",
"Year" : "1901"
},
"EventPlace" : {
"Place" : "Egmond-Binnen"
}
},
"RelationEP" : [
{
"RelationType" : "Overledene",
"EventKeyRef" : "Event1",
"PersonKeyRef" : "Person1"
},
{
"PersonKeyRef" : "Person2",
"RelationType" : "Vader",
"EventKeyRef" : "Event1"
},
{
"PersonKeyRef" : "Person3",
"RelationType" : "Moeder",
"EventKeyRef" : "Event1"
}
],
"Source" : {
"SourcePlace" : {
"Place" : "Egmond-Binnen / Egmond-Binnen"
},
"SourceAvailableScans" : {
"Scan" : {
"Uri" : "https://nha.blob.core.windows.net/scans/BS%20Overlijden/Egmond-Binnen/1901/RNH_O_EGB_1901_006-a.jpg",
"OrderSequenceNumber" : "1"
}
},
"SourceLastChangeDate" : "2015-07-31",
"SourceRemark" : {
"Value" : "Datadump ExportBS+Overlijden_20210302_102010.csv van NHA via e-mail"
},
"SourceReference" : {
"InstitutionName" : "Noord-Hollands Archief",
"DocumentNumber" : "14",
"Place" : "Haarlem"
},
"RecordGUID" : "{8554bfba-9fd9-4ca2-876c-feb7da095d6c}",
"SourceIndexDate" : {
"To" : "1901-12-31",
"From" : "1901-01-01"
},
"SourceDate" : {
"Year" : "1901",
"Month" : "7",
"Day" : "8"
},
"SourceType" : "BS Overlijden"
},
"Person" : [
{
"BirthPlace" : {
"Place" : "Egmond-Binnen"
},
"PersonName" : {
"PersonNameLastName" : "Baltus",
"PersonNameFirstName" : "Aafje"
},
"Gender" : "Vrouw",
"Age" : {
"PersonAgeYears" : "8 maanden"
}
},
{
"PersonName" : {
"PersonNameFirstName" : "Jan",
"PersonNameLastName" : "Baltus"
}
},
{
"PersonName" : {
"PersonNameLastName" : "Kuijper",
"PersonNameFirstName" : "Grietje"
}
}
]
}
After "Person":, you see a [, which means there is an array of Persons.
The first person does have a "BirthPlace", for the other persons it seems to be unknown what the "BirthPlace" is, because it is not mentioned in the json.
print($jsonpers["Person"][0]["PersonName"]["PersonFirstName"] should be: "Aafje"
and
print($jsonpers["Person"][2]["PersonName"]["PersonFirstName"] should be: "Grietje"