How can I parse a JSON file with PHP?

Question

I tried to parse a JSON file using PHP. But I am stuck now.

This is the content of my JSON file:

{
    "John": {
        "status":"Wait"
    },
    "Jennifer": {
        "status":"Active"
    },
    "James": {
        "status":"Active",
        "age":56,
        "count":10,
        "progress":0.0029857,
        "bad":0
    }
}

And this is what I have tried so far:

<?php

$string = file_get_contents("/home/michael/test.json");
$json_a = json_decode($string, true);

echo $json_a['John'][status];
echo $json_a['Jennifer'][status];

But because I don't know the names (like 'John', 'Jennifer') and all available keys and values (like 'age', 'count') beforehand, I think I need to create some foreach loop.

I would appreciate an example for this.

Answer 1

The quickest way to echo all json values is using loop in loop, the first loop is going to get all the objects and the second one the values...

foreach($data as $object) {

        foreach($object as $value) {

            echo $value;

        }

    }

Answer 2

<?php
$json = '{
    "response": {
        "data": [{"identifier": "Be Soft Drinker, Inc.", "entityName": "BusinessPartner"}],
        "status": 0,
        "totalRows": 83,
        "startRow": 0,
        "endRow": 82
    }
}';
$json = json_decode($json, true);
//echo '<pre>'; print_r($json); exit;
echo $json['response']['data'][0]['identifier'];
$json['response']['data'][0]['entityName']
echo $json['response']['status']; 
echo $json['response']['totalRows']; 
echo $json['response']['startRow']; 
echo $json['response']['endRow']; 

?>

Answer 3

$json_a = json_decode($string, TRUE);
$json_o = json_decode($string);



foreach($json_a as $person => $value)
{
    foreach($value as $key => $personal)
    {
        echo $person. " with ".$key . " is ".$personal;
        echo "<br>";
    }

}

Answer 4

More standard answer:

$jsondata = file_get_contents(PATH_TO_JSON_FILE."/jsonfile.json");

$array = json_decode($jsondata,true);

foreach($array as $k=>$val):
    echo '<b>Name: '.$k.'</b></br>';
    $keys = array_keys($val);
    foreach($keys as $key):
        echo '&nbsp;'.ucfirst($key).' = '.$val[$key].'</br>';
    endforeach;
endforeach;

And the output is:

Name: John
 Status = Wait
Name: Jennifer
 Status = Active
Name: James
 Status = Active
 Age = 56
 Count = 10
 Progress = 0.0029857
 Bad = 0

Answer 5

Try it:

foreach ($json_a as $key => $value)
 {
   echo $key, ' : ';
   foreach($value as $v)
   {
       echo $v."  ";
   }
}

Answer 6

The most elegant solution:

$shipments = json_decode(file_get_contents("shipments.js"), true);
print_r($shipments);

Remember that the json-file has to be encoded in UTF-8 without BOM. If the file has BOM, then json_decode will return NULL.

Alternatively:

$shipments = json_encode(json_decode(file_get_contents("shipments.js"), true));
echo $shipments;