Access object property with disallowed character in property name

json, object, php, properties

Solution

This will work:

echo $object->feed->{'xmlns$media'};

Alternatively, you can tell `json_decode` to return an array:

$array = json_decode($json, true);
echo $array['feed']['xmlns$media'];

Problem

I'm working with the YouTube Data API per PHP and requesting a video feed from a specific user in json-format. The result after json_decode is the following (shortened example): ``` stdClass Object ( [version] => 1.0 [encoding] => UTF-8 [feed] => stdClass Object ( [xmlns] => http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom [xmlns$media] => http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ [xmlns$openSearch] => http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/ [xmlns$gd] => http://schemas.google.com/g/2005 [xmlns$yt] => http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007 ) ) ``` My question is: how can I access for example the node "xmlns$media" with PHP? Within the dollar-sign it won't work or is there a way which I didn't get yet?

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