Passing a JSON array into a function?

[nitromaster]

Hi

 

I need to pass in information via a JSON to a function.

 

The JSON array is as follows

{"canvas_url":"http://www.site.com/someurl/"}

Need to pass that into

$facebook->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($jsonarray);

where $jsonarray = that array

 

Of course

$facebook->api_client->admin_setAppProperties({"canvas_url":"http://www.site.com/someurl/"});

doesnt work. Neither does

$jsonarray = '{"canvas_url":"http://www.site.com/someurl/"}';
$facebook->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($jsonarray);

I've tried countless other things I could think about but still failed. What should I be looking at doing with the array? I had a  look at json encode/decode as well but these seem not useful to me as I'm working with total static arrays.

 

Thanks

[WolfRage]

<?php //this is not an array in PHP
$jsonarray = '{"canvas_url":"http://www.site.com/someurl/"}';
//this is an array in PHP
$jsonarray = array ("canvas_url"=>"http://www.site.com/someurl/");
?>

[ignace]

$jsonarray = json_decode('{"canvas_url":"http://www.site.com/someurl/"}'); var_dump($jsonarray);

[rhodesa]

My guess is that the Facebook PHP Library will encode the JSON data for you. so try this:

$props = array(
  'canvas_url' => "http://www.site.com/someurl/",
);
$facebook->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($props);

[nitromaster]

My guess is that the Facebook PHP Library will encode the JSON data for you. so try this:

$props = array(
  'canvas_url' => "http://www.site.com/someurl/",
);
$facebook->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($props);

Hi

Thanks for the reply, and pointing me towards what I should be doing.

Yes, the facebook libary does actually enocde the data, should have read through it first

 

Your way seems like it should work...but no matter what i seem to run into an error of something with the " => " bit when defining the array.

I haven't really used arrays like so, much, recently.

it's giving the following error

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mysite/set.php on line 19

Line 19 is

  'canvas_url' => "http://www.site.com/someurl/",

I've only been able to get other errors, when trying it some other way

like

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks

 

 

And thanks to the rest of the repliers

[WolfRage]

 <?php
//Make sure you are using the array construct especially for older versions of PHP.
$props = array( 'canvas_url' => 'http://www.site.com/someurl/');
?>

[nitromaster]

 <?php
//Make sure you are using the array construct especially for older versions of PHP.
$props = array( 'canvas_url' => 'http://www.site.com/someurl/');
?>

Still nothing.

Maybe my problem lies elsewhere?

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING on that line.

Might be due to my version/set of php or whatever? (although i am using php 5)

Thanks

[rhodesa]

it probably has to do something before that. can you post all the code or at least the 10 lines before the problem line.

[nitromaster]

it probably has to do something before that. can you post all the code or at least the 10 lines before the problem line.

Hi

Full file is

 

<?
require_once 'facebook.php';
require_once 'config.php';
$bebo = new Facebook($FACEBOOK_API, $FACEBOOK_SECRET);
$props = array( 'canvas_url' => 'http://www.site.com/someurl/');
$facebook->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($props);
?>

[rhodesa]

There are no syntax errors there. Is the Parse Error you are getting in this file or one of the included files?

[nitromaster]

There are no syntax errors there. Is the Parse Error you are getting in this file or one of the included files?

It's in this file. To make sure it wasn't facebook.php, I changed to bebo (they have a compatible api/libary) to test first. And also removed config.php and just put the variables in this file.

 

set.php

<?
require_once 'bebo.php';
$BEBO_API="YQmEbXMjdYTW38y00000000000000000000t";
$BEBO_SECRET="1lpji7Bto0jZyB6h600000000000000000000";
$bebo = new Bebo($BEBO_API, $BEBO_SECRET);
$props = array( 'canvas_url' => 'http://www.mysite.com/7/');
$bebo->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($props);
?>

 

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/mysite/public_html/set.php on line 6

 

Really going over my head tbh. =/

 

Any ideas?

[rhodesa]

There must be some hidden character in there. Try creating a new file and retyping it.

 

<?php
require_once 'bebo.php';
$BEBO_API="YQmEbXMjdYTW38y00000000000000000000t";
$BEBO_SECRET="1lpji7Bto0jZyB6h600000000000000000000";
$bebo = new Bebo($BEBO_API, $BEBO_SECRET);
$props = array( 'canvas_url' => 'http://www.mysite.com/7/');
$bebo->api_client->admin_setAppProperties($props);
?>

[haku]

Ya, something's odd there.

 

It shouldn't make a difference, but you should also try using full php tags instead of the short tags. That can cause strange happenings on a server that's not configured to use them.