Parsing nested JSON with PHP

Question

{
    "listing": {
        "@attributes": {
            "domain": "example.com"
        },
        "tld": "com",
        "sld": "example",
        "owner": "John Smith"
    }
}

I am needing to iterate through this JSON array and put the values into PHP variables so that I can return the values.

Example:

echo $sld;

would print:

example

Would I need to do this with a foreach loop (and if so how would I format this) or is there a easy built in function such as extract() that will do this?

Have you looked into decoding the JSON using json_decode? If you pass the optional true boolean second parameter, it will convert JSON into an associative array which can easily be manipulated with PHP. — War10ck
– War10ck, Commented Jul 17, 2013 at 21:03

user1646111 · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-17 21:06:22Z

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<?php 
$json = '{
    "listing": {
        "@attributes": {
            "domain": "example.com"
        },
        "tld": "com",
        "sld": "example",
        "owner": "John Smith"
    }
}';

$decoded_array = json_decode($json, true);
echo $decoded_array['listing']['sld'];//example
?>

answered Jul 17, 2013 at 21:06

user1646111

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Chris Morrissey · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-17 21:04:18Z

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You can use

json_decode('your json string', true);

Which will return an associative array of your string which you can then loop though.

answered Jul 17, 2013 at 21:04

Chris Morrissey

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