PHP Extracting a certain part of JSON string where username equals - php

Question

I was wondering how to extract only a certain part from a JSON String:
[
{
"ID": "132",
"countrycode": "DE",
"USERNAME": "CRC Titan2000",
"Nickname": "^7[6S] ^1Titan",
"Money": "550111",
"Distance": "105692714",
"Trip": "370839",
"Bonus": "223",
"Last Car": "RB4",
"Last Position": "The Hills",
"Server": "^7One"
},
{
"ID": "1634",
"countrycode": "ES",
"USERNAME": "lobocop",
"Nickname": "^4Leo ^1Messi",
"Money": "12816",
"Distance": "17091463",
"Trip": "25682",
"Bonus": "29",
"Last Car": "MRT",
"Last Position": "Bridge East",
"Server": "^7One"
},
{
"ID": "4240",
"countrycode": "GB",
"USERNAME": "Smacky",
"Nickname": "^7^d^6o^7^s",
"Money": "-532",
"Distance": "1987579",
"Trip": "7738",
"Bonus": "51",
"Last Car": "RB4",
"Last Position": "The Hills",
"Server": "^7One"
},
{
"ID": "5467",
"countrycode": "TR",
"USERNAME": "excaTR",
"Nickname": "^1Furkan^7Tr",
"Money": "7363",
"Distance": "17064283",
"Trip": "15747",
"Bonus": "31",
"Last Car": "RB4",
"Last Position": "Bridge East",
"Server": "^7One"
}
]
I only want to pull the "Last Position" of the "USERNAME" excaTR, but ignore all the others. Sort of like a MySQL query, where I want to echo the last position WHERE username='excaTR', but instead for PHP and JSON.
This is the code that I tried, but it didn't work
$json_stats = file_get_contents('<JSON string here>');
$stats_data = json_decode($json_stats, true);
foreach ($stats_data as $_SESSION['username'] => $location){
echo $location['Last Position'];
}

Answer 1

You are not using foreach as it should be.
Have a look at your JSON, you have an array of objects.
So you have to iterate over you array, and check your object values.
By the way, in my answer, I use json_decode( ,false) to force result as a multidimensional array, matter of taste only.
$json_stats = file_get_contents('<JSON string here>');
$stats_data = json_decode($json_stats, false);
foreach ($stats_data as $array) {
if ($array['USERNAME'] == 'excaTR') {
echo $array['Last Position'];
}
}