API Data Return to HTML - php

Question

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" } }';
}

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

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.