PHP Array inside of an array issue

Question

I'm having some problems getting the data through my PHP loop.

<?php
$url = 'https://www.fibalivestats.com/data/1653309/data.json';
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($content, true);
?>

<?php 


foreach($json['totallds']['sPoints'] as $item); {
        
    echo $item;
}

?>

The error I'm getting is an array to string conversion error. What I'm trying to get is the data from the sPoints array that will give me a Top 5 points scorers for a basketball game.

I'll build a table for this in HTML later but for now, it's not displaying the data at all and I'm getting errors. I feel like I may have confused arrays and strings too. Any thoughts about what I'm doing wrong? JSON file can be found in the $url variable.

Also if it helps, here's the link to where I have gotten the data from and what context the Top 5 is from https://www.fibalivestats.com/u/NSS/1653309/lds.html

Thanks!

Robo Robok · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-20 01:14:46Z

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Your $item is an array, so you can't just echo it like that. You can, however, echo its columns, for example:

foreach($json['totallds']['sPoints'] as $item) {
    echo $item['firstName'] . ' ' . $item['familyName'];
}

Notice the removed semicolon between the foreach () and {.

edited Aug 20, 2020 at 1:14

answered Aug 20, 2020 at 1:06

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Liam Collins Over a year ago

Thanks for this! I get one player name out of that echo.I only get the last player. I don't get all five players. Is there any way to do this?

Robo Robok Over a year ago

Updated. You had a typo there - a semicolon after the foreach, which made it go nuts :)

Liam Collins Over a year ago

Perfect! It works a charm. Thanks heaps! This should work in a table I'm guessing? I'm concerned it might output all of the results into one table cell.

Robo Robok Over a year ago

You're welcome. I deleted my previous comment, because you also need to split it into separate rows if you need to. Please open another question if you struggle with displaying a table out of this data.

Rodrigo Teixeira Andreotti · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-20 01:12:17Z

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Well, array to string conversion error means you're trying to echo an array.

If you see the return of the url you are looking at, you can verify that the "sPoints" key returns an array with several objects.

Try to change echo to print_r or var_dump to view entire data or complete your business logic.

answered Aug 20, 2020 at 1:12

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Caconde · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-20 14:51:35Z

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Try changing:

echo $item;

to:

var_dump($item);

edited Aug 20, 2020 at 14:51

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answered Aug 20, 2020 at 1:12

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