I am trying to access data from json in PHP but it seems not working.
code:
$raw =file_get_contents("http://api.mydomain.com/data.json");
$data = json_decode($raw->list);
echo $data;
I'm getting error that list is not an object.
Here is my json
{ "list" : [ { "data1":" my data"}, {"data2": "my data 2"}]};
What did u do wrong? Also how can i access data1 and others?
You don't need the $raw->list bit and you are getting an object back from json_decode so use print_r and not echo
$raw = file_get_contents("http://api.mydomain.com/data.json");
$data = json_decode($raw);
print_r($data);
I'm having difficulties grabbing any of the JSON information from this URL.
I've tried other JSON snippets and they seem to work so I'm not sure if it's the way that the URL is structured or something.
Basic example below.
<?php
$json = file_get_contents('http://nhs-sh.cfpreview.co.uk/api/version/fetchLatestData?dataType=Clinics&versionNumber=-1&uuID=website&dt=');
$obj = json_decode($json);
echo "Body: " . $obj->Body;
?>
The link provided starts with
{ data :
which is valid javascript but invalid json. You can test it on http://jsonlint.com. To fix this we can replace the data with "data" :
$json = file_get_contents('http://nhs-sh.cfpreview.co.uk/api/version/fetchLatestData?dataType=Clinics&versionNumber=-1&uuID=website&dt=');
$obj = json_decode($json);
if (json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) { //check if there was an error decoding json
$json = '{ "data" :'. substr(trim($json), 8); // replace the first 8-1 characters with { "data" :
$obj = json_decode($json);
}
print_r($obj->data); //show contents of data
Please note that this fix is dependent on the data source e.g. if they change data to dataset. The correct measure would be to ask the developers to fix their json implementation.
I have added new data to my API. I want to return it as plain text
This is the API response PHP returns.
{
"apiVersion":"1.0",
"data":{
"location":"London",:
{
"pressure":"1021",
"temperature":"23",
"skytext":"Sky is Clear",
"humidity":"40",
"wind":"18.36 km/h",
"date":"07-10-2015",
"day":"Friday"
}
}
I want to return the pressure value on my html page so my users can see the reading. I am having issues displaying it.
This is my PHP api.php
require_once('./includes/config.php');
require_once('./includes/functions.php');
error_reporting(0);
header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8;');
$city = $_GET['city'];
if(isset($city)) {
$weather = new Weather($conf['apikey'], $_GET['f']);
$weather_current = $weather->get($city, 0, 0, null, null);
$now = $weather->data(0, $weather_current);
if($now['location'] !== NULL) {
echo '{"apiVersion":"1.0", "data":{ "location":"'.$now['location'].'", "temperature":"'.$now['temperature'].'", "pressure":"'.$now['pressure'].'", "skytext":"'.$now['description'].'", "humidity":"'.$now['humidity'].'", "wind":"'.$now['windspeed'].'", "date":"'.$now['date'].'", "day":"'.$now['day'].'" } }';
} else {
echo '{"apiVersion":"1.0", "data":{ "error":"The \'city\' requested is not available, make sure it\'s a valid city." } }';
}
} else {
echo '{"apiVersion":"1.0", "data":{ "error":"You need to specify the city parameter" } }';
}
In order to fetch data from a JSON source you should parse the data with the json_decode() method. You can then use the second parameter to parse it into an array. If you omit the second parameter you would get an array of objects.
Important: It seems your JSON has a syntax error too. I have added a weather key before the weather information.
$data = '{
"apiVersion":"1.0",
"data":{
"location":"London",
"weather":{ // Notice the new key!
"pressure":"1021",
"temperature":"23",
"skytext":"Sky is Clear",
"humidity":"40",
"wind":"18.36 km/h",
"date":"07-10-2015",
"day":"Friday"
}
}
}';
$json = json_decode($data, true);
You should then be able to fetch the pressure as an associative array.
$pressure = $json['data']['weather']['pressure']; // Equals: 1021
Hope this can help you, happy coding!
First of all, you need to validate your JSON. It is missing some key things that will keep you from being able to parse it. Use JSONLint to verify your JSON.
After modification the JSON to make it valid I did the following:
$json = '{"apiVersion":"1.0", "data":{ "location":"London", "data":{ "pressure":"1021", "temperature":"23", "skytext":"Sky is Clear", "humidity":"40", "wind":"18.36 km/h", "date":"07-10-2015", "day":"Friday" }}}';
$obj_style = json_decode($json);
$array_style = json_decode($json, true);
echo $obj_style->data->data->pressure;
echo $array_style['data']['data']['pressure'];
Using json_decode() I was able to setup a way to parse the JSON two ways, once as an object and once as an array (adding the true flag returns the results as an array).
From there all you have to do is drill town to the bits of information that you want to display.
I've got a really weird problem and I can't figure out why.
The situation is quite simple. My Android app uploads JSON data to a php script on my server. Right now I am trying to parse the data.
This is the JSON-Array passed to the script (via httpPost.setEntity ()):
[{"friends_with_accepted":"false","friends_with_synced":"false","friends_with_second_id":"5","friends_with_first_id":"6"}]
This is the php script:
<?php
// array for JSON response
$response = array();
$json = file_get_contents ('php://input');
$jsonArray = json_decode ($json, true);
foreach ($jsonArray as $jsonObject) {
$firstId = $jsonObject['friends_with_first_id'];
$accepted = $jsonObject ['friends_with_accepted'];
$secondId = $jsonObject ['friends_with_second_id'];
$synced = $jsonObject ['friends_with_synced'];
echo "accepted: ".$accepted."synced: ".$synced;
} ?>
And this is the response I get from the script:
accepted: synced: false
Why is the "synced" property correctly passed, but not the "accepted" property??
I can't see the difference. Btw, firstId and secondId are parsed correctly as well.
Okay, i just found the problem:
Instead of
$accepted = $jsonObject ['friends_with_accepted'];
I deleted the space between jsonObject and the bracket
$accepted = $jsonObject['friends_with_accepted'];
I am attempting to write PHP code to interact with JSON output from Mapquest's Open API / Open Street Map service. I have listed it below. I have been using this code in my Drupal 6 implementation. This code returns no output. When I use it, json_last_error() outputs 0.
function json_test_page() {
$url = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route?outFormat=json&from=40.037661,-76.305977&to=39.962532,-76.728099';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode(var_export($json));
$foo .= $obj->{'fuelUsed'};
$output .= foo;
return $output;
}
You can view the raw JSON output by following the URL. In this function I am expecting to get 1.257899 as my output. I have two questions:
(1) What can I call so I get items out of my array. For instance, how can I get the value represented in JSON "distance":26.923 out of the array?
(2) Is it possible am I running into a recursion limit issue that I've read about in the PHP Manual?
If you read the manual page for json_decode carefully, you'll notice there is a parameter (false by default) that you can pass to have it return an array rather than an object.
$obj = json_decode($json, true);
So:
<?php
function json_test_page() {
$url = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route?outFormat=json&from=40.037661,-76.305977&to=39.962532,-76.728099';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode($json, true);
//var_dump($obj);
echo $obj['route']['fuelUsed'];
}
json_test_page();
Remove the var_export function from json_decode.
You're trying to convert information about a string to json.
I was able to get the fuelUsed property this way
function json_test_page() {
$url = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions/v1/route?outFormat=json&from=40.037661,-76.305977&to=39.962532,-76.728099';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode($json);
return $obj->route->fuelUsed;
}