Getting data from a json file with arrays - php

Question

I'm having troubles to get specific data from a json file using the built-in php functions.
Let me show you some code :
Json File :
{"votes": [ { "date":"November 3rd, 2017 10:08 PM EST", "timestamp":1509743288, "nickname":"Th3ProHack3R", "claimed":"0" }, { "date":"November 3rd, 2017 10:06 PM EST", "timestamp":1509743160, "nickname":"TheKing", "claimed":"0" }, { "date":"November 3rd, 2017 09:45 PM EST", "timestamp":1509741902, "nickname":"some0ne", "claimed":"0" } ] }
My php code :
$json= file_get_contents("myfile.json");
$data = json_decode($json, true);
$voter1 = $data['votes']->nickname;
echo $firstvoter;
I had this code working on a very basic json code without arrays. But something is wrong here because I can't get the nicknames of the voters.
I'm just a little bit confused, so what I wanna do is picking up the nicknames of the voters and then I'll put them on a table using html.
I hope I get a detailed answer so I can understand some of the confusing stuff.

Answer 1

you need to get array to json object. hear "votes" is json object so $data['votes'][0] is return first array see code...
<?php
$json= file_get_contents("myfile.json");
$data = json_decode($json, true);
$voter1 = $data['votes'][0];
$voter2 =$data['votes'][1];
print_r( $voter1);
echo "<br>".$voter1["nickname"];
echo "<br>".$voter2["nickname"];
?>

Answer 2

After converting into json Decode you array make look like this,
Array
(
[votes] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[date] => November 3rd, 2017 10:08 PM EST
[timestamp] => 1509743288
[nickname] => Th3ProHack3R
[claimed] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[date] => November 3rd, 2017 10:06 PM EST
[timestamp] => 1509743160
[nickname] => TheKing
[claimed] => 0
)
[2] => Array
(
[date] => November 3rd, 2017 09:45 PM EST
[timestamp] => 1509741902
[nickname] => some0ne
[claimed] => 0
)
)
)
In this you need the nickname:
foreach ($jsonData['votes'] as $key => $value) {
echo "Nickname : ". $value['nickname']."<br/>";
}