Using Twitter's search API, I'm being returned a helluva lot of information that is essentially extraneous to me. I'd like to populate an array with just the content of the tweets, none of the metadata.
Here's an example of a request and the response. So basically, I'd like to populate an array with the values of the text key.
I assume the answer would like in some kind of for loop however I don't know where to begin.
Something like this will do it:
<?
$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=laughter&rpp=100&result_type=recent&lang=en'));
$l = count($json->results);
for ($i=0; $i < $l; $i++) {
echo $json->results[$i]->text . '<br/>';
}
?>
Note: Use whatever reading method you need if file_get_contents isn't allowed to read remote.
try this:
Convert JSON to Array PHP
<?php
//get json
$foo= file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=stackoverflow&rpp=10&result_type=recent&lang=en');
//convert to array
$var = json_decode( $foo , true );
//print array
print_r( $var );
?>
Convert Array PHP to JSON
<?php
//declarate array
$foo = array( 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 , 6 => 7, 8);
//convert to json
$var = json_encode( $foo );
//print json
print_r( $var );
?>
Read:
As of PHP 5.2.0, the JSON extension is bundled and compiled into PHP by default.
See And Read This JSON PHP Documentation
AND
If you use PHP < 5.2, use JSON Class Objects
Bye!
