How to access JSON decoded array in PHP

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I returned an array of JSON data type from javascript to PHP, I used json_decode($data, true) to convert it to an associative array, but when I try to use it using the associative index, I get the error "Undefined index" The returned data looks like this

array(14) { [0]=> array(4) { ["id"]=> string(3) "597" ["c_name"]=> string(4) "John" ["next_of_kin"]=> string(10) "5874594793" ["seat_no"]=> string(1) "4" } 
[1]=> array(4) { ["id"]=> string(3) "599" ["c_name"]=> string(6) "George" ["next_of_kin"]=> string(7) "6544539" ["seat_no"]=> string(1) "2" } 
[2]=> array(4) { ["id"]=> string(3) "601" ["c_name"]=> string(5) "Emeka" ["next_of_kin"]=> string(10) "5457394839" ["seat_no"]=> string(1) "9" } 
[3]=> array(4) { ["id"]=> string(3) "603" ["c_name"]=> string(8) "Chijioke" ["next_of_kin"]=> string(9) "653487309" ["seat_no"]=> string(1) "1" }

Please, how do I access such array in PHP? Thanks for any suggestion.

Answers

As you're passing true as the second parameter to json_decode, in the above example you can retrieve data doing something similar to:

$myArray = json_decode($data, true);
echo $myArray[0]['id']; // Fetches the first ID
echo $myArray[0]['c_name']; // Fetches the first c_name
// ...
echo $myArray[2]['id']; // Fetches the third ID
// etc..

If you do NOT pass true as the second parameter to json_decode it would instead return it as an object:

echo $myArray[0]->id;

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

vault-3a55f3359b24

Try something like this:

//initialize array
$myArray = array();

//set up the nested associative arrays using literal array notation
$firstArray = array("id" => 1, "data" => 45);
$secondArray = array("id" => 3, "data" => 54);

//push items onto main array with bracket notation (this will result in numbered indexes)
$myArray[] = $firstArray;
$myArray[] = $secondArray;

//convert to json
$json = json_encode($myArray);

Friday, December 23, 2022

anoop_garlapati

The type of NewsFeed is array so It should be $data->NewsFeed[0]->data

Sunday, October 2, 2022

wintvelt

you can use it like this, in JSON format when you evaluate false value it will give you blank, and when you evaluate true it will give you 1.

$str = '[{"clientId":"17295c59-4373-655a-1141-994aec1779dc","channel":"/meta/connect","connectionType":"long-polling","ext":{"fm.ack":false,"fm.sessionId":"22b0bdcf-4a35-62fc-3764-db4caeece44b"},"id":"5"}]';

$arr = json_decode($str,true);

if($arr[0]['ext']['fm.ack'])    // suggested by **mario**
{
    echo "true";    
}
else {
    echo "false";   
}

Thursday, October 6, 2022

matthias_benkard

You can represent it as a simple object:

{
  "-10" : 100,
  "-1" : 102,
  "3" : 44,
  "12" : -87,
  "12345" : 0
}

Since it will be a simple object, you cannot iterate it the same way as an array, but you can use the for...in statement:

for (var key in obj) {
  if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
    var value = obj[key];
  }
}

And if you want to access an specific element by key, you can use also here the square bracket property accessor:

obj['-10']; // 100

Note that I use the hasOwnProperty method inside the for...in loop, this is to prevent iterating properties defined on higher levels of the prototype chain, which can cause problems and unexpected behavior... more info here.

Thursday, October 20, 2022

vortex

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