PHP: Get value from array - php

Question

I am using the bukkit JSONAPI and php JSONAPI.php to get the list of players on my minecraft server to my website. To get the count, I do this:
require('JSONAPI.php'); // get this file at: https://github.com/alecgorge/jsonapi/raw/master/sdk/php/JSONAPI.php
$api = new JSONAPI("localhost", 20059, "user", "pass", "salt");
$limit = $api->call("getPlayerLimit");
$count = $api->call("getPlayerCount");
$c = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_PORT, 20059);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$result = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);
echo "<h5>Players online:</h5>";
$num= '' . $count['success'] . '/' . $limit['success'];
echo $num;
This returns: 1/40
Then, I try to get the player list:
$list = $api->call('getPlayerNames');
echo $list;
This just returns: Array
However, when I do
var_dump($api->call('getPlayerNames'));
I get:
array(3) { ["result"]=> string(7) "success" ["source"]=> string(14) "getPlayerNames" ["success"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(8) "gauso001" } }
However, what I want is simply a list of the players without all of the extra stuff. Sorry if this is a noob question, I only know pretty basic PHP.
Stuff that might help:
method docs: http://alecgorge.com/minecraft/jsonapi/apidocs/#package-JSONAPI%20standard
tell me what else..
THANK YOU in advance, I hope I'll be as good as you in PHP one day :D

Answer 1

Looks like player names, oddly enough, are contained as an array in the success key.
To access the player names, you could:
$list = $api->call('getPlayerNames');
// debug
print_r($list['success']);
// direct access
echo $list['success'][0];
// loop
foreach($list['success'] as $player) {
echo $player;
}
Format to your needs. But that should get you started.
Note: I'd also encourage you to learn about Arrays in PHP.

Answer 2

$api->call('getPlayerNames') returns a named array, one key of which (success) is another array containing the player names. Iterate over the success key to get the player list.
$players = $api->call('getPlayerNames');
foreach($players['success'] as $player) {
echo $player;
}