Access data in an array - php

Question

What I want to do is read the information and be able to get the data of each game, so which teams played, who won and etc. I've tried everything but can't seem to do this.
This is my data structure:
stdClass Object (
[_links] => Array (
[0] => stdClass Object (
[self] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/soccerseasons/354/fixtures
)
[1] => stdClass Object (
[soccerseason] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/soccerseasons/354
)
)
[count] => 10
[fixtures] => Array (
[0] => stdClass Object (
[_links] => stdClass Object (
[self] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/fixtures/137842
)
[soccerseason] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/soccerseasons/354
)
[homeTeam] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/teams/338
)
[awayTeam] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/teams/70
)
)
[date] => 2015-01-17T15:00:00Z
[status] => FINISHED
[matchday] => 22
[homeTeamName] => Leicester City
[awayTeamName] => Stoke City FC
[result] => stdClass Object (
[goalsHomeTeam] => 0
[goalsAwayTeam] => 1
)
)
[1] => stdClass Object (
[_links] => stdClass Object (
[self] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/fixtures/136840
)
[soccerseason] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/soccerseasons/354
)
[homeTeam] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/teams/72
)
[awayTeam] => stdClass Object (
[href] => http://api.football-data.org/alpha/teams/61
)
)
[date] => 2015-01-17T15:00:00Z
[status] => FINISHED
[matchday] => 22
[homeTeamName] => Swansea City
[awayTeamName] => Chelsea FC
[result] => stdClass Object (
[goalsHomeTeam] => 0
[goalsAwayTeam] => 5
)
)
)
)
For example: I'd like to know what the value for "homeTeamName","awayTeamName", "goalsHomeTeam", "goalsAwayTeam" ...

Answer 1

Its hard to tell because you didnt post the code you are using but i suspect you are confusing the structure type. What you posted is actually an object - an instance of stdClass and the items that look like array elements are in fact properties on that object. So you need to use the appropriate access method of ->propertyName as opposed to ['propertyName']:
// YES
echo $data->fixtures[0]->homeTeamName;
// NO
echo $data['fixtures'][0]['homeTeamName'];
So to get the data for each game (or what i presume to be the "game" items) you would do:
foreach ($data->fixtures as $game) {
echo $game->homeTeamName;
echo $game->awayTeamName;
echo $game->result->goalsHomeTeam;
echo $game->result->goalsAwayTeam;
// etc..
}
It also seems like this is the return value from an API parsed with json_decode(). If that is the case you can actually make it an array all the way through by passing true as the second argument to json_decode():
$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data['fixtures'] as $game) {
echo $game['homeTeamName'];
echo $game['awayTeamName'];
echo $game['result']['goalsHomeTeam'];
echo $game['result']['goalsAwayTeam'];
// etc..
}