Printing a recursive array - json

Question

can someone help me print the "text" value from this json decoded array?
i did echo $obj["text"] and i get a blank :(
ah, i did the var_dump ; it says its an array of 20 elements inside an array of 1 element :-)
so after editing the code 42 times i have come to the solution only because the awesome Fangel helped that to print text the following line needs to be placed:
echo $obj[0]["text"];
$obj=[
{
"created_at":"Mon Sep 03 05:00:30 +0000 2012",
"id":242487207418544128,
"id_str":"242487207418544128",
"text":"Clint, come to the Democratic Convention. We'll get you a coherent speech to read - and we'll even help you comb your hair.",
"source":"web",
"truncated":false,
"in_reply_to_status_id":null,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,
"in_reply_to_user_id":null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,
"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,
"user":{
"id":15376626,
"id_str":"15376626",
"name":"BarrackObama",
"screen_name":"BarrackObama",
"location":"Washington, D.C.",
"url":null,
"description":"President of the United States of America",
"protected":false,
"followers_count":94289,
"friends_count":1,
"listed_count":577,
"created_at":"Thu Jul 10 12:05:37 +0000 2008",
"favourites_count":0,
"utc_offset":-18000,
"time_zone":"Quito",
"geo_enabled":false,
"verified":false,
"statuses_count":106,
"lang":"en",
"contributors_enabled":false,
"is_translator":false,
"profile_background_color":"E6EB6F",
"profile_background_image_url":"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/76798997/PresidentialSeal.jpg",
"profile_background_image_url_https":"https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/76798997/PresidentialSeal.jpg",
"profile_background_tile":false,
"profile_image_url":"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/56441335/so_normal.jpg",
"profile_image_url_https":"https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/56441335/so_normal.jpg",
"profile_link_color":"0FA7FF",
"profile_sidebar_border_color":"EAFF08",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color":"171CA6",
"profile_text_color":"E69407",
"profile_use_background_image":true,
"default_profile":false,
"default_profile_image":false,
"following":null,
"follow_request_sent":null,
"notifications":null
},
"geo":null,
"coordinates":null,
"place":null,
"contributors":null,
"retweet_count":110,
"entities":{
"hashtags":[
],
"urls":[
],
"user_mentions":[
]
},
"favorited":false,
"retweeted":false
}
]

Answer 1

http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
assoc
When TRUE, returned objects will be converted into associative
arrays.
When you set second parameter as true, you should do echo $obj["text"]; instead of $obj->text; because, as it says in manual, second parameter, when true, force json_decode return associative arrays even if it is an object in JSON.
As far as I can see, you have an array of objects in your JSON. So after json decode you should have an array of objects also. Just use foreach loop to go through array and print text of all items:
foreach($obj as $item) {
echo $item->text + "<br/>";
}
or like this for associative arrays(if second param of json_decode is true):
foreach($obj as $item) {
echo $item["text"] + "<br/>";
}

Answer 2

This is the way to print it:echo $obj[0]["text"];