Why is not returning the JSON? - php

Question

I'm trying to get the latitude and longitude from google maps API, I'm also using a PHP RESTful API that I've been developing, but I can not get/print the array with the values, am I doing correctly?
I've already tried it using the postman app, to see if I'm getting something, but it gave the 200 status and it doesn´t show anything. This is the way i'm doing the call:
https://skeleton-app-itson.000webhostapp.com/rest/index.php/Prueba/latLong/Mexico
This is problem
function latLong_get($address){
if(!empty($address)){
//Formatted address
$formattedAddr = str_replace(' ','+',$address);
//Send request and receive json data by address
$geocodeFromAddr = file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='.$formattedAddr.'&sensor=false&key=IALREADYHAVETHEKEY');
$output = json_decode($geocodeFromAddr);
//Get latitude and longitute from json data
$data['latitude'] = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
$data['longitude'] = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;
//Return latitude and longitude of the given address
if(!empty($data)){
echo $data;
}else{
return false;
}
}else{
return false;
}
}
I'm expecting an array with the values, but I've been getting an empty screen

Answer 1

You try to print an array - this is error. For example, you can try
if(!empty($data)){
echo json_encode($data);
}