Formatting API JSON response using PHP

Question

I have an api and i want to parse data from it using php

That's the response


{
    "success": true,
    "data": [
        {
            "medicineId": 12,
            "medicineName": "Abacavir"
        },
        {
            "medicineId": 10,
            "medicineName": "Alclometasone"
        },
        {
            "medicineId": 15,
            "medicineName": " Alectinib"
        },
        {
  ],
    "message": "Successfully retrieved"
}

I want to list all medicine names

i tried this but it doesn't get the name just the success response


$age = file_get_contents('link');

$array = json_decode($age, true);

foreach($array as $key=>$value)
{
    echo $key . "=>" . $value . "<br>";
}

you can use echo '<pre>'; var_dump($array); echo '</pre>'; or print_r($array); both will work or you can install chrome extensions like json formatter so that you can save you time in doing that. — Akhilesh
– Akhilesh, Commented Jul 6, 2019 at 17:23
Thank you, Can you help me with that? stackoverflow.com/questions/56917306/… — Icarus
– Icarus, Commented Jul 7, 2019 at 9:21

A l w a y s S u n n y · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-06 17:44:43Z

3

You can easily list all medicine names with their id like this way by looping $array['data'] array. Let's do this way-

<?php
$age = '{"success":true,"data":[{"medicineId":12,"medicineName":"Abacavir"},{"medicineId":10,"medicineName":"Alclometasone"},{"medicineId":15,"medicineName":" Alectinib"}],"message":"Successfully retrieved"}';
$array = json_decode($age, true);
$medicine_names = [];
foreach($array['data'] as $key=>$value)
{
  $medicine_names[$value['medicineId']] = $value['medicineName'];  
}
print_r($medicine_names);
echo implode(' ', $medicine_names);
?>

Output:

 Array ( 
         [12] => Abacavir
         [10] => Alclometasone 
         [15] => Alectinib
 )

WORKING DEMO: https://3v4l.org/tBtaW

edited Jul 6, 2019 at 17:44

answered Jul 6, 2019 at 16:58

A l w a y s S u n n y

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5 Comments

Icarus Over a year ago

Thank you so much, sorry but i'm not that good in php, what if i want to print only a list of medicine names like Abacavir Alclometasone Alectinib

Lawrence Cherone Over a year ago

array_column ;p

Icarus Over a year ago

instead of print_r?

A l w a y s S u n n y Over a year ago

Yes instead of print_r(); Just implode your array with an space character, see my edit I've updated it.

A l w a y s S u n n y Over a year ago

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