I been looking thru the posts here all day but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. (I'm new to php and json)
Here is my code that work.
$json = '{"id":1234,"img":"1.jpg"}';
$data = json_decode($json, true);
echo $data["img"];
But when the json respond is this
$json = '{"demo1":[{"id":1234,"img":"1.jpg"}],"userId":1}';
it's a big harder for me. then img is a child of demo1? How to get it?
Thx. :)
As you're new to PHP, I'll explain how to figure out the array indces of the required array value. In PHP, there are many functions for debugging — print_r() and var_dump() are two of them. print_r() gives us a human-readable output of the supplied array, and var_dump() gives us a structured output along with the variable types and values.
In this case, print_r() should suffice:
$json = '{"demo1":[{"id":1234,"img":"1.jpg"}],"userId":1}';
$data = json_decode($json, true);
// wrap the output in <pre> tags to get a prettier output
echo '<pre>';
print_r($data);
echo '</pre>';
This will produce the following output:
Array
(
[demo1] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1234
[img] => 1.jpg
)
)
[userId] => 1
)
From there, it should be pretty easy for you to figure out how to access the required vaule.
$data['demo1'][0]['img'];
For ease of use, you can create a helper function to make this process easier. Whenever you want to view the contents of an array, you can simply call dump_array($array); and be done with it. No more messing around with <pre> tags or print_r().
Function code:
function dump_array($array) {
echo '<pre>' . print_r($array, TRUE) . '</pre>';
}
Usage example:
$arr = ['foo' => range('a','i'), 'bar' => range(1,9)];
dump_array($arr);
after decoding :
echo $data->demo[0]->img;
Basically, a { in JSON leads to a -> (it's an object).
And a [ to a [], it's an array.