Getting a specific value from a json response

Question

I have this code

$client = json_decode($client); 
echo "<pre>";
print_r($client);

which produces there

Array
(
  [0] => stdClass Object
    (
        [id] => 1
        [name] => Jojohn@doe.com
        [email_verified_at] => 
        [password] => $2y$10$pAvJ9/K7ZPOqw10WhfmToumK0TY1XihY8M9uAEEs4GkHZr4LdGc4e
        [remember_token] => 
        [created_at] => 2020-07-29 21:08:02
        [updated_at] => 
        [userid] => 2
        [account_rep] => 3
    )

)

My question is how do I get the value of name and account_rep I tried

echo $client['0']['object']['name'];

but that does not work it just throws an error

Cannot use object of type stdClass as array 

Answer 1

json_decode($variable), is used to decode or convert a JSON object to a PHP object.

So you could do this as $client['0'] is an object.

echo $client['0']->name;

But I'd say you should rather convert the json object to associative array instead of PHP object by passing TRUE to as an argument to the json_decode. When TRUE , returned objects get converted into associative arrays.

$client = json_decode($client, true); 

Now $client is

Array
(
  [0] => Array
    (
        [id] => 1
        [name] => Jojohn@doe.com
        [email_verified_at] => 
        [password] => $2y$10$pAvJ9/K7ZPOqw10WhfmToumK0TY1XihY8M9uAEEs4GkHZr4LdGc4e
        [remember_token] => 
        [created_at] => 2020-07-29 21:08:02
        [updated_at] => 
        [userid] => 2
        [account_rep] => 3
    )

)

Now you could simply do

echo $client[0]['name'];