Issues with parsing response json output with php

[MiPlayer123]

Hello all. I am new to the VDP APIs and I am running into issues trying to read the output of the response as a json using php. I followed the tutorial here. I am using the Offers Data API.

My goal is to be able to generate a list of deals to be displayed in the frontend. I am trying to do this by reading the json output and parsing the info for the deals.  

This is what the original tutorial had and it works fine:

$response = curl_exec($curl);  //This output contains the json output as well

$response_info = curl_getinfo($curl); 

To get the information, I am running: $response_data = file_get_contents($response); which does not appear to work. Since the output it not just the json, but with other info, I am not able to run: $arr = json_decode($response,true); to pasrse the json. 

Please let me know what I can do to fix this, or if there is a better way to accomplish the goal.  Thank you!

[jenn_kh]

Hi, @MiPlayer123. Thank you for reaching out! An agent is looking for a solution for you and will get back to you shortly. In the meantime, if any community members have a suggestion, feel free to share it here. - Jenn

[SLi]

Hi @MiPlayer123,

Please try to use an API client tool first so you can test and trouble errors/issues easily. You can use VDC Playground, Postman, SoapUI or any other tool that you are familiar with. Please see user guides below for respective tools.

• VDC Playground: https://community.developer.visa.com/t5/Tutorials/How-to-test-and-troubleshoot-APIs-with-the-Visa-De...
• Postman: https://developer.visa.com/pages/working-with-visa-apis/two-way-ssl#testing_twoway_ssl_connectivity_...
• SOAP UI: https://developer.visa.com/pages/working-with-visa-apis/two-way-ssl#testing_twoway_ssl_connectivity_...

Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any questions.

[MiPlayer123 · Accepted solution]

Thank you all for your input. I use VDP playground to test the APIs. The issue I was having was parsing the data into a json. I have since resolved the issue as follows: 

$json = json_decode($response, true);

var_dump($json['Offers']); //This is only to display offers array

Here is the loop that I used to print the data:

$offers = $json["Offers"];

foreach ($offers as $x => &$offer) {
print($offer["offerId"]."<br>");
print($offer["offerTitle"]."<br>"."<br>");
}

Hope this helps others who run into the same issues.

[SLi]

@MiPlayer123, Thank you for sharing with the developer community how you resolved the issue!