Php Json Decode - Display value of second level items - php

Question

I'm trying to decode JSON format
My API Endpoint is https://api.reliableserver.host/api/landings
And this is the output
{
"success": true,
"data": [
{
"id": 1,
"primary_balance": "$4,184.37",
"primary_currency": "USD",
"secondary_balance": "¥0",
"secondary_currency": "JPY",
"tertiary_balance": "฿0.00",
"tertiary_currency": "THB",
"first_language": "ไทย",
"second_language": "English",
"footer_text": "a",
"created_at": "2020-10-26T07:45:49.000000Z",
"updated_at": "2020-10-28T05:31:04.000000Z",
"deleted_at": null
}
],
"message": "Landings retrieved successfully"
}
I need to echo individual values, for example: Primary Balance: $4,184.37
I tried using this:
$url = "https://api.reliableserver.host/api/landings";
$obj = json_decode($url);
echo $obj>primary_balance;
But it didnt work, kindly guide me what am I doing wrong.

Answer 1

You can do this way :
$url = '{"success": true,"data": [{"id": 1,"primary_balance": "$4,184.37","primary_currency": "USD","secondary_balance": "¥0","secondary_currency": "JPY","tertiary_balance": "฿0.00","tertiary_currency": "THB","first_language": "ไทย","second_language": "English","footer_text": "a","created_at": "2020-10-26T07:45:49.000000Z","updated_at": "2020-10-28T05:31:04.000000Z","deleted_at": null}],"message": "Landings retrieved successfully"}';
$obj = json_decode($url, true);
echo $obj['data'][0]['primary_balance'];
// output $4,184.37
Above code tested here
You need file_get_contents() method to get the JSON data from your given URL.
$url = "https://api.reliableserver.host/api/landings";
$obj = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);
echo $obj['data'][0]['primary_balance'];
// output $4,184.37

Answer 2

Basically, you are not calling that api anywhere. If it is an open endpoint (without auth or headers, you can do file_get_contents() or I suggest you to use curl.
Also, you need to check on response data structure, it has a 'data' key which is an array. so you need to use foreach to iterate on the 'data' key.
I have given a sample answer that should work if there is only 1 item in data.
$url = "https://api.reliableserver.host/api/landings";
$resp = file_get_contents($url);
$obj= json_decode($resp);// will return in object form
echo $obj->data[0]->primary_balance;
or
$url = "https://api.reliableserver.host/api/landings";
$resp = file_get_contents($url);
$obj= json_decode($resp, true); // will return in array form
echo $obj['data'][0]['primary_balance'];
json_decode()