Here's an example (I did alter the values) of JSON data that I'm getting from an API:
{"status":"OK","data":{"trends":{"uv":[{"date":"201303","value":1},{"date":"201304","value":2},{"date":"201305","value":31},{"date":"201306","value":4},{"date":"201307","value":4},{"date":"201308","value":9},{"date":"201309","value":12},{"date":"201310","value":43},{"date":"201311","value":14},{"date":"201312","value":73},{"date":"201401","value":78},{"date":"201402","value":65},{"date":"201403","value":52}]},"trends_low_sample":false,"query_cost":13,"trends_frequency":"monthly"}}
How would go about accessing the value in data.trends.uv[number_the_array].date in PHP?
Here's some stuff I've played around with:
$data1 = file_get_contents('/home/strj500/Downloads/result.html');
//echo $data1;
$theData = json_encode($data1);
//$data1 = preg_replace('/,\s*([\]}])/m', '$1', utf8_encode($data1));
//$data1 = utf8_encode($data1);
$result1 = json_decode($theData);
echo $result1->status;
//var_dump($result1);
//echo json_last_error();
//echo error_log();
//echo error_reporting(E_ALL);
/*foreach ($result1->data->trends->rank as $rank
{
echo "{$rank->date}
";
}*/
//echo $result1["data"]["trends"]["uv"];
Maybe another question that goes along with this, if I'm wanting to access JSON later in PHP, what's the best file format to store it in? (JSON, TXT, HTML)? If it helps I'm also going to be passing this json data on mysql.