i am working on a cakephp 2.x and i am sending data from android to my webapp in a json fromat
i am getting the data in my $data variable when i print_r the data
Array (
[sms] => [[+16063934284, hello, 1, 1372671157000]]
)
i want to access each element of this array or want to save each element in a seperate variable.. for example i want to do something like this
$number = ['sms'][0]
sorry i am week in arrays so dont how can i do this
This is not valid JSON, if your response is something like this:
[sms] => [[ '+16063934284', 'hello', 1, 1372671157000 ]]
Now you can use json_decode functon, so then you will have the following:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 16063934284
[1] => 123
[2] => 1
[3] => 1372671157000
)
)
So later, you can use foreach() to iterate through the elements of the new array.
Here is a working example:
I don’t know how you’re structuring data, but you should be able to assign it to a list like this:
foreach ($data['sms'] as $row) {
list($number, $message, $param3, $param4) = $row;
}
But for some reason you seem to have an array in an array (with the two opening square brackets) so it would actually look like this:
foreach ($data['sms'] as $row) {
list($number, $message, $param3, $param4) = $row[0];
}
Either way, you can then just access the number in the loop via the variable name:
foreach ($data['sms'] as $row) {
list($number, $message, $param3, $param4) = $row[0];
printf('Number is %s', $number);
}
Your json data inside $data['sms'] is not correct json. You need to manually parse this string or generate correct json in your Android app.
If you want to parse your data use next code:
$sms = str_replace('[[', '', $data['sms']);
$sms = str_replace(']]', '', $sms);
$sms = explode(', ', $sms);
print_r($sms);
As you can see in output $sms is an array with all your attributes.
$data[0] is array. You can just set $data = $data[0] and then use foreach($data as $value)You can use explode() function, to separate the values in array.
explode(Array_name);
If you send proper JSON from the app, you can simply use $array = json_decode($data['sms'])
The correct JSON string would look like [["+16063934284", "hello", 1, 1372671157000]]
Note that the " instead of ' (quote vs apostrophe) is important to JSON formatting, sorry Kristian Vitozev. Also note that using explode on ', ' will break if the SMS message contains a comma.
Here is a code example:
$sms_list = json_decode($data['sms']);
foreach($sms_list as $sms){
list($phone_number, $message, $unknown_bool, $timestamp) = $sms;
//...
}
