Get an array in a php file from http request

I’m learning php and I’m trying to get a php file from a http request using Guzzle and then just take a particular array from those contents and ignore the rest. But I’m unsure how to get that array.

<?php 
require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

use GuzzleHttpClient;

$client = new Client();
$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://api-address/file.php');

$body = $response->getBody();
$decoded = json_decode($body, true);

$contents = file_get_contents($decoded);

When I print $contents it looks as expected, for example:

<?php

$var = "example string";

$array = [
   [
      'name' => 'stuff I need'
   ]
];

I want to just get the array, iterate through it and write each to a file but I don’t know how to get just that and ignore the other stuff that isn’t in that array it if that makes sense. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer

You are using …

json_decode($body, true);

That method converts the content to array, that means that probably if you do a …

var_dump($decoded);

you can see an array that it contents arrays inside …

Well, I mean, you can get …

$array = [
 [
 'name' => 'stuff I need'
 ]
];

Navigating into $json_decode() array.

If you are asking the how, well, just use the next step …

$contentArray = $decoded[1] //With this you can get the array that you need.