Parsing data obtained from Google DATA API

Question

I am working on a Google API to obtain the contacts of users at my website, and I obtained a result using like this, but I wish wish to have the contacts out of the whole chunk.

I just wanna know , how can I parse values from here ??

Here is the data i received :-

   [0]=>   array(7) {
    ["id"]=>
    array(1) {
      ["$t"]=>
      string(83)
"http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/atiprashant%40gmail.com/base/1213ed0accdb4e"
    }
    ["updated"]=>
    array(1) {
      ["$t"]=>
      string(24) "2011-07-16T06:04:00.610Z"
    }
    ["category"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(2) {
        ["scheme"]=>
        string(37) "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind"
        ["term"]=>
        string(46) "http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"
      }
    }
    ["title"]=>
    array(2) {
      ["type"]=>
      string(4) "text"
      ["$t"]=>
      string(22) "ajay kumar yadav RKite"
    }
    ["link"]=>
    array(4) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["rel"]=>
        string(54)
"http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#edit-photo"
        ["type"]=>
        string(7) "image/"
        ["href"]=>
        string(106)
"https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/atiprashant%40gmail.com/1213ed0accdb4e/18unp7AvcGYQW42p1HfLVA"
      }
      [1]=>
      array(3) {
        ["rel"]=>
        string(49) "http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo"
        ["type"]=>
        string(7) "image/"
        ["href"]=>
        string(83)
"https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/atiprashant%40gmail.com/1213ed0accdb4e"
      }
      [2]=>
      array(3) {
        ["rel"]=>
        string(4) "self"
        ["type"]=>
        string(20) "application/atom+xml"
        ["href"]=>
        string(84)
"https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/atiprashant%40gmail.com/full/1213ed0accdb4e"
      }
      [3]=>
      array(3) {
        ["rel"]=>
        string(4) "edit"
        ["type"]=>
        string(20) "application/atom+xml"
        ["href"]=>
        string(101)
"https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/atiprashant%40gmail.com/full/1213ed0accdb4e/1310796240610001"
      }
    }
    ["gd$email"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["rel"]=>
        string(38) "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other"
        ["address"]=>
        string(21) "ajay007iitk@gmail.com"
        ["primary"]=>
        string(4) "true"
      }
    }
    ["gContact$groupMembershipInfo"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(2) {
        ["deleted"]=>
        string(5) "false"
        ["href"]=>
        string(83)
"http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/atiprashant%40gmail.com/base/3ba9061f0dded52e"
      }
    }   } 

Answer 1

You don't necessarily have to parse it yourself. You can just use the Google Data library if it is available for your environment. For instance it has bindings for Java, .NET, PHP, GWT (gwt-gdata), Python, etc. Look at the following:

• http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/
• http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/client-libraries.html