Access data inside JSON in PHP

Question

I have a variable $output in PHP with this inside:

   {
"results": [
    {
        "address_components": [
            {
                "long_name": "6",
                "short_name": "6",
                "types": [
                    "street_number"
                ]
            },
            {
                "long_name": "",
                "short_name": "",
                "types": [
                    "route"
                ]
            },
            {
                "long_name": "",
                "short_name": "",
                "types": [
                    "locality",
                    "political"
                ]
            },
            {
                "long_name": "Barcelona",
                "short_name": "Barcelona",
                "types": [
                    "administrative_area_level_2",
                    "political"
                ]
            },
            {
                "long_name": "Catalunya",
                "short_name": "CT",
                "types": [
                    "administrative_area_level_1",
                    "political"
                ]
            },
            {
                "long_name": "Spain",
                "short_name": "ES",
                "types": [
                    "country",
                    "political"
                ]
            },
            {
                "long_name": "0830",
                "short_name": "0830",
                "types": [
                    "postal_code"
                ]
            }
        ],
        "formatted_address": "Barcelona, Spain",

"status": "OK"
}

I want to access the data inside "formatted_address" and store it's value in a variable in PHP so i can later store it on my database. I have tried so many things, but no success.

this is what i tried:

$info= json_decode($output); 
echo $info->results;
echo $info->results[0];
echo $info.results;
echo $info['results']
etc... etc...

Could you please tell me how exactly do i access this information in PHP?

Help please!

What have you tried? The PHP docs have info on how to parse JSON. — Ray, Dec 25 '17 at 01:58
$info->results[0]-formatted_address I think. That would just be the first one though as it's an array of objects. — C Miller, Dec 25 '17 at 02:09
@blacksmith try using `var_dump` instead of `echo` and post the results. Also check out the link that @marekful mentioned. — Ray, Dec 25 '17 at 02:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 25 '17 at 02:09

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Almost!

$info->results[0]->formatted_address

Also, try using var_dump for better output on php objects.

answered Dec 25 '17 at 02:09

forsureitsme

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 25 '17 at 02:17

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Or as one line:

echo json_decode($output)->results[0]->formatted_address;

answered Dec 25 '17 at 02:17

stckvrw

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Access data inside JSON in PHP

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