PHP/JSON - how to parse data returned via REST

PHP
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I’m not sure if this entire value returned is JSON or a combination of stuff. I’m trying to get the name field from the carrier array inside this return.

When I call print_r($return) I get this:

        HTTP/1.1 200 OK Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true 
    Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Accept, Authorization, Content-Type, If-Match, If-Modified-Since, If-     None-Match, If-Unmodified-Since Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag Content-Type: application/json Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:36:55 GMT Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000 Twilio-Request-Duration: 0.153 Twilio-Request-Id: RQ499d995634d1424aab9ac6ba2476d11d X-Powered-By: AT-5000 X-Shenanigans: none Content-Length: 335 Connection: keep-alive {"caller_name": null, "country_code": "US", "phone_number": "+16145555555", "national_format": "(614) 555-5555", "carrier": {"mobile_country_code": "310", "mobile_network_code": "120", "name": "Sprint Spectrum, L.P.", "type": "mobile", "error_code": null}, "url": "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/+16148866678?Type=carrier"}

here is the JSON part:

          keep-alive 
        {
            "caller_name": null, 
            "country_code": "US", 
            "phone_number": "+16145555555", 
            "national_format": "(614) 555-5555", 
            "carrier": 
            {
                "mobile_country_code": "310", 
                "mobile_network_code": "120", 
                "name": "Sprint Spectrum, L.P.", 
                "type": "mobile", 
                "error_code": null
            }, 
        "url": "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/+16145555555?Type=carrier"}

How do I get just the name field from the carrier array? ex. Sprint Spectrum, L.P.

I’ve tried playing around with son_encode, but I get null values.

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$jsond = '[{
            "caller_name": null, 
            "country_code": "US", 
            "phone_number": "+16145555555", 
            "national_format": "(614) 555-5555", 
            "carrier": 
            {
                "mobile_country_code": "310", 
                "mobile_network_code": "120", 
                "name": "Sprint Spectrum, L.P.", 
                "type": "mobile", 
                "error_code": null
            }, 
        "url": "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/+16145555555?Type=carrier"
    
}]';

$cell = json_decode($jsond, true);

echo $cell[0]['carrier']['name']; //echo

Example is here:

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If you are using curl exclude the headers. The headers are being included in the response which results in invalid json.

I prefer using guzzlehttp instead of curl because it provides a much more sophisticated interface than just curl calls alone. One of which is the getBody() method which will return just the body of the response without the headers.

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