Drilling down into JSON with PHP - php

Question

This is a really simple task, that has me absolutely stumped! I'm pulling back some JSON via CURL and PHP, and attempting to access the data from the below structure:
object(stdClass)[1]
public 'maxResults' => int 43
public 'resultList' =>
array (size=43)
0 =>
object(stdClass)[2]
public '#class' => string '' (length=64)
public 'id' => int
public 'version' => int 0
public 'dateCreated' => string '2014-02-11T18:37:55.835+0000' (length=28)
public 'dateModified' => null
public 'locationId' => int
public 'departmentId' => int
public 'ownerCompanyId' => int
public 'active' => boolean true
public 'userId' => int
public 'userName' => string '' (length=24)
public 'externalCode' => null
public 'employeeDetails' =>
object(stdClass)[3]
...
public 'chargeBandAllocationsIds' =>
array (size=7)
...
public 'personalRateChargeBandId' =>
object(stdClass)[13]
...
public 'employeeGroupIds' =>
array (size=0)
...
public 'isResource' => boolean false
(I've removed some of the values, for privacy reasons)
Now I'm trying to var_dump using var_dump(json_decode($result, false));, however when I try and get into the 'resultList' array using var_dump(json_decode($result['resultList'], false)); I get an illegal string offset error.

Answer 1

$result is the JSON string, your cannot do $result['resultList'] on a string. It only becomes a structure after you json_decode it. However, you're decoding it as object, not array, so this wouldn't work either way.
$data = json_decode($result);
var_dump($data->resultList);
var_dump($data->resultList[0]);
var_dump($data->resultList[0]->id);
foreach ($data->resultList as $employee) {
var_dump($employee->id);
}