Trying to parse JSON with PHP

Question

I\'m new to php and this has really stumped me - i\'m trying to parse this json in order to get the value of match_id.

{
    \"result\": {
        \         


        

Answer 1

You are getting an array back from json_decode() as you passed the second parameter with a value of true so you access it like any multi-dimensional array:

$matchhistoryjson = file_get_contents($apimatchhistoryurl);
$decodedmatchhistory = json_decode($matchhistoryjson, true);
echo $decodedmatchhistory['result']['matches'][0]['match_id'];

Demo

Naturally if you have multiple matches you wish to get the match ID for you can loop through $decodedmatchhistory['result']['matches'] and get them accordingly.