PHP JSON Data Issue

Question

I'm trying to fetch the Ask price from Bittrex API. I'm unable to get this data. I've tried both of the following and neither is working:

function bittrex_mco_btc(){

   $data = json_decode(getResource('https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getmarketsummary?market=btc-mco'),'TRUE');
   return $data->result->ask;

}

function bittrex_mco_btc(){

   $data = json_decode(getResource('https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getmarketsummary?market=btc-mco'),'TRUE');
   return $data['result']['Ask'];

}

I think I need to use 'result' because it's an associative array, but I have no idea what's wrong beyond that.

Oh, also here's the getResource:

function getResource($url){
$ch = curl_init();
// SETTING CURL OPTIONS
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;}

and here's the json:

{"success":true,"message":"","result":[{"MarketName":"BTC-MCO","High":0.00281740,"Low":0.00162000,"Volume":1490023.83431235,"Last":0.00216002,"BaseVolume":3208.40974458,"TimeStamp":"2017-08-19T04:06:23.39","Bid":0.00216001,"Ask":0.00219186,"OpenBuyOrders":953,"OpenSellOrders":3453,"PrevDay":0.00278935,"Created":"2017-07-02T00:37:16.957"}]}

Answer 1

1st: you should access it like this . because your ask key is inside the 0'th index .

2nd: json_decode second parameter should be a Boolean value .but your given string.

Note: echo "<pre>"; print_r($data); Understand the structure of array.

PHP :

     $data = json_decode(getResource('https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getmarketsummary?market=btc-mco'),TRUE);

    // $data = json_decode(file_get_contents('https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getmarketsummary?market=btc-mco'),TRUE);

     return $data['result'][0]['Ask'];

    }


?>

Answer 2

getResource is not a native php function is it from a library?