JSON Array - PHP

Question

I am trying to get the URL of a thumbnail from YouTube's History JSON feed. I have the key and can browse the JSON in my browser.

Feed: http://pastebin.com/mePrYhxK

I can't seem to be able to get anything.

$json = file_get_contents('YouTubeJSONURLincludingkey');
$data = json_decode($json,true);
$url = $data->{'items'}[0]->{'snippet'}->{'thumbnails'}->{'medium'}->{'url'};
echo $url;

Right now, getting nothing.

• Jonnix: You passed json_decode true as a second param, so things are arrays,not objects.
• Kevin M Granger: What's the output of var_dump on $data, and each child of it? When you say you're not getting anything, what do you mean?

Answer 1

Passing true to the second argument of json_decode indicates you want it to return an array.

You might be able to get better results doing:

$url = $data['items'][0]['snippet']['thumbnails']['medium']['url'];