How can I get arrays returned from laravel foreach instead of a json array?

Question

I'm trying to return an array of values using laravel foreach based on input values. This is my expected output

    [
[
    "number": 2567046807891,
    "message": "THis is a test",
    "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
],
[
    "number": 256782248927,
    "message": "THis is a test",
    "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
]

]

but am getting this instead

[
{
"number": 2567046807891,
"message": "THis is a test",
"sender": "Oasis Agrib"
},
{
"number": 256782248927,
"message": "THis is a test",
"sender": "Oasis Agrib"
}
]

This is what i have tried

$batch = array();
                foreach($data as $v){
                    $phone_number = $v['phonenumber'];
                    $batch[] = array('number' => $phone_number,'message' => $message, 'sender' => $sender);
                }
                return $batch;

How can best go about this situation

how do you render on your view file.. can you post the code here.? — danish-khan-I
– danish-khan-I, Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 13:15
am pushing the array to external an API. It only accepts that format 'msgdata'=> array( array( 'number'=>256704733492, 'message'=>'elias', 'senderid'=>'Good'), array( 'number'=>256774733492, 'message'=>'marvin', 'senderid'=>'Bad') ) — John Rogers
– John Rogers, Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 13:24
have you tried casting $batch to array as return (array) $batch; — danish-khan-I
– danish-khan-I, Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 13:39
it will be helpful if you could post your route,controller as well. — danish-khan-I
– danish-khan-I, Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 16:40

Dygnus · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-24 13:26:04Z

1

The expected outcome with curly brackets is correct. An array (also called a list) [] contains elements and cannot have properties/keys:

[
    [], // another array/list
    {}, //object
    "", //string
]

So in order to work with key/value pairs, you'll have to go with an object:

{
    "number": 256782248927,
    "message": "THis is a test",
    "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
}

Combine multiple objects in a list and you'll end up with the outcome you already posted:

[
    {
        "number": 2567046807891,
        "message": "THis is a test",
        "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
    },
    {
        "number": 256782248927,
        "message": "THis is a test",
        "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
    }
]

Note that an external API will not handle your 'expected' outcome as the syntax is invalid, it should return an error or discard invalid JSON.

answered Aug 24, 2019 at 13:26

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3 Comments

John Rogers Over a year ago

but the api takes this format

'msgdata'=> array( array( 'number'=>256704733492, 'message'=>'elias', 'senderid'=>'Good'), array( 'number'=>256774733492, 'message'=>'marvin', 'senderid'=>'Bad') )

How can i go about that??

Dygnus Over a year ago

Probably if you change your return $batch; into return array('msgdata' => $batch);. You're only missing the msgdata layer.

John Rogers Over a year ago

Nothing changes. I still return the curly brackets

Joffrey Schmitz · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-25 08:34:29Z

0

If you want to use an JSON structure as PHP array, you can use the function json_decode() and set the second flag to true

$json_string = '[
    {
        "number": 2567046807891,
        "message": "THis is a test",
        "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
    },
    {
        "number": 256782248927,
        "message": "THis is a test",
        "sender": "Oasis Agrib"
    }
]' ;  
$array = json_decode($json_string, true);

You can now use $array as a classic PHP associative array.

answered Aug 25, 2019 at 8:34

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