Title: Array Examples
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Array Examples

 *  Resolved [KayBeSee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaybesee/)
 * (@kaybesee)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-examples/)
 * Hey —
 * I was just wondering if you could post some code snippets for outputting fields
   that return array values (writer, director, etc). I’m having trouble getting 
   values to appear. Int and String return values seem to work fine though.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/imdb-connector/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imdb-connector/)

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 *  Thread Starter [KayBeSee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaybesee/)
 * (@kaybesee)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-examples/#post-5628218)
 * I’ve tried using do_shortcode() to access the elements from the array as well
   but it isn’t working:
 *     ```
       <?php
       	$imdbID = get_post_meta($post->ID, "MovieNameIMDBid", true);
       	$movie = get_imdb_connector_movie($imdbID);
       	echo "<div class='imdb-info-field'>Genre:</div> " . do_shortcode('[imdb_movie_detail title=' . $movie["title"] . ' detail=genre]') . " <br /><br />";
       ?>
       ```
   
 * I would ideally like to access them via a PHP function though because I intend
   on inserting `<br />`‘s after each actor, director, writer, etc not just have
   them as a list of strings.
 *  Plugin Author [thaikolja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaikolja/)
 * (@thaikolja)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-examples/#post-5628381)
 * Hi KayBeSee,
 * `get_imdb_connector_movie()` always returns an array as default. See here for
   an example output: [http://pastebin.com/cDaBynJA](http://pastebin.com/cDaBynJA)
 * To use them in a PHP code is fairly simple. If you want to use arrays in `echo`,
   use `implode()` function. Example:
 *     ```
       <?php
       	$imdb_id = "tt0478970"; //get_post_meta($post->ID, "MovieNameIMDBid", true);
       	$movie = get_imdb_connector_movie($imdb_id);
       	echo "Title: " . $movie["title"] . "<br />";
       	echo "Genres: " . implode(", ", $movie["genres"]) . "<br />";
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Hope I could help you.
 *  Plugin Author [thaikolja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaikolja/)
 * (@thaikolja)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-examples/#post-5628382)
 * If you want to insert a `<br />` after each actor, use foreach() loop:
 *     ```
       <?php
       	$imdb_id = "tt0478970"; //get_post_meta($post->ID, "MovieNameIMDBid", true);
       	$movie = get_imdb_connector_movie($imdb_id);
       	foreach($movie["actors"] as $actor) {
       		echo $actor . "<br />";
       	}
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [KayBeSee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaybesee/)
 * (@kaybesee)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-examples/#post-5628391)
 * Awesome! Thank you so much.
 * One last question, if I wanted to access an individual element in the array? 
   I’m thinking in particular runtime I want to just access the 2nd element (total
   minutes).
 *  Plugin Author [thaikolja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaikolja/)
 * (@thaikolja)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-examples/#post-5628397)
 * If they’re named as they are in the _runtime_ array, you can access them by using`
   $movie["runtime"]`, or, if you want to go deeper, `$movie["runtime"]["minutes"]`.

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