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I have a PHP file which is displaying some posted data:

$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

echo json_encode($data);

The above returns: 

{"name":"mark","item":"car"}

Now I want to echo just the name so I tried:

echo $data[0].name;

But that's giving me Error: [Object].[Object]

How can I fix this?

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  • $data->name 15 chars in length for a comment. fgot Commented Apr 28, 2018 at 22:37
  • Sorry but that's returning Null Commented Apr 28, 2018 at 22:40
  • echo $data['name'] will outputs mark Commented Apr 28, 2018 at 22:42

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You need to decode your JSON input first:

// $data is an input string    
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

// convert input string to PHP array    
$data = json_decode(data, true);

// echo just the name
echo $data['name'];

// dump the whole parsed input
var_dump($data);
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