<?php
 
  // Your goal is to count how many items exist that have an age equal to or greater than 50, and print this final value.
 
  $ch = curl_init('https://c...content-available-to-author-only...e.com/api/challenges/json/age-counting');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
 
  $json_data = json_decode($data, true);
  print_r($json_data);
  $items = explode(', ', $json_data['data']);
  $count = array_reduce($items, function ($count, $item) {
    if (strpos($item, 'age=') !== false) {
      $age = explode('=', $item)[1];
      if ($age >= 50) return $count + 1;
    }
    return $count;
  }, 0);
 
  print_r($count); // 128
 
?>

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