I have state list in JSON format and i am using json_decode function but when i am trying to access array values getting error.
$states='{
"AL": "Alabama",
"AK": "Alaska",
"AS": "American Samoa",
"AZ": "Arizona",
"AR": "Arkansas"
}';
$stateList = json_decode($states);
echo $stateList['AL'];
Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array on line 65
You see, the json_decode() method doesn’t return our JSON as a PHP array; it uses a stdClass object to represent our data. Let’s instead access our object key as an object attribute.
echo $stateList->AL;
If you provide true as the second parameter to the function we will receive our PHP array exactly as expected.
$stateList = json_decode($states,true);
echo $stateList['AL'];
Either you pass true to json_decode like Nanhe said:
$stateList = json_decode($states, true);
or change the way you access it:
echo $stateList->{'AL'};
You could pass true as the second parameter to json_encode or explicitly convert the class to array. I hope that helps.
$stateList = json_decode($states);
//statelist is a object so you can not access it as array
echo $stateList->AL;
If you want to get an array as a result after decode :
$stateList = json_decode($states, true);
//statelist is an array so you can not access it as array
echo $stateList['AL'];
