Facing error in php Illegal string offset

Question

I am writing a code of php that fetch data from dummy json api server.But i am facing this error.

Warning: Illegal string offset 'employee_name' in C:\xampp\htdocs\jsonapi.php on line 19
name: s

Warning: Illegal string offset 'employee_age' in C:\xampp\htdocs\jsonapi.php on line 21
name: s


Notice: Undefined index: employee_name in C:\xampp\htdocs\jsonapi.php on line 19
name:

Notice: Undefined index: employee_age in C:\xampp\htdocs\jsonapi.php on line 21
name:

There is my code.

<?php

$api_url = 'http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employees';

// Read JSON file
$json_data = file_get_contents($api_url);

// Decode JSON data into PHP array
$user_data = json_decode($json_data,true);

// Cut long data into small & select only first 10 records
$user_data = array_slice($user_data,0,9);

// Print data if need to debug
//print_r($user_data);

// Traverse array and display user data

foreach ($user_data as $user) {
    echo "name: ".$user['employee_name'];
    echo "<br />";
    echo "name: ".$user['employee_age'];
    echo "<br /> <br />";

}

?>

What i should do to remove this kind of error?

This means $user_data contains strings, as opposed to objects. — Jeto
– Jeto, Commented Apr 18, 2020 at 10:15

Jeto · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-18 10:18:41Z

3

As you can see in the fetched JSON, the actual data is contained within a data field.

So replace:

$user_data = json_decode($json_data, true);

With:

$result = json_decode($json_data, true);
$user_data = $result['data'];

answered Apr 18, 2020 at 10:18

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