Hello there everyone.

Some recent code I've been working on connects to an online web service. This code (after using json_decode($events, true)) displays the following:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => connected
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => typing
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => gotMessage
            [1] => Hello!
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => typing
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [0] => stoppedTyping
        )

)

My question is, how would I go about accessing this data, seeing as it's a bunch of arrays inside of an array?

I understand the basics of accessing arrays in the method of $array_name[number] and $array_name['identifier'].

Lets assume the array code I posted above was the variable $events. If I do

print_r($events[4]);

That does not return the desired result (often outputting nothing at all). What am I doing wrong here? Can anyone set me on the right track?

Thank you in advance for your time & help.

Perhaps you are missing something else, because if the variable $events looks like the above output, then print_r($events[4]); should indeed output only that part of the array. Multi dimentional arrays are accessed by simply adding more brackets.

PHP Code:

$a = array(array(array("some value")));
echo $a[0][0][0]; // Will output "some value" 


Thank you for your reply Lizciz, it was most useful to me. Using the code you provided, I managed to track down some more errors which lead me to the (seemingly simple) root cause of my problems; the web service I'm accessing is, for whatever reason, outputting their array values as one array element per character.

I've contacted them and they've confirmed this is an error on their end.

Thank you for all your help, hopefully solving this problem should get a fair bit easier now