How to select only one of the objects in a json file-CodePudding

Hi I'm currently trying to do an API request. The API sends out a json request like this:

[
 {
  "name": "Test 1"
  "yes-or-no": "yes"
 },
 {
  "name": "Test 2"
  "yes-or-no": "no"
 }
]

My question is, how do I select one of the yes-or-no to echo in the website? I tried doing this:

<?php
$status = json_decode(file_get_contents('url to the json file'));
// Display message AKA uptime.
foreach ($status->yes-or-no as $answer) {
    echo $answer.'<br />';
}
?>

But didn't work.

I'm sorry if I got some terms wrong, since I'm pretty new to coding APIs like this.

CodePudding user response：

Try something like this:

<?php
$statuses = json_decode(file_get_contents('url to the json file'));

foreach ($statuses as $status) {
    echo $status->{'yes-or-no'};
}
?>

CodePudding user response：

I'm not really sure what you are trying to do, but maybe i can shed some light into the question:

$status = json_decode(file_get_contents('url to the json file'), true);

Add ", true" this will make your $status an array instead of an object.

foreach ($status as $answer) {
    echo $answer['yes-or-no'].'<br />'; //output yes or no
    echo $answer['name'].'<br />'; //output test 1 or test 2
}