how to read API data and insert it into MYSQL with php - php

Question

So I am trying to get conversion rates from an API and I get the following data:
https://api.exchangeratesapi.io/history?start_at=2017-01-01&end_at=2018-09-01&symbols=EUR&base=GBP
How can I loop over the data and insert date & conversion rate into MYSQL DB.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am currently standing here:
$host="localhost";
$user="conversion";
$pass="password";
$db="areporting";
$connect= new mysqli($host,$user,$pass,$db) or die("ERROR:could not connect
to the database!!!");
$string = file_get_contents("https://api.exchangeratesapi.io/history?start_at=2017-01-01&end_at=2018-09-01&symbols=EUR&base=GBP");
$json = json_decode($string, true);
var_dump($json);
here a screenshot of the Data I get:

Answer 1

You can use foreach on json result :
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$string = file_get_contents("https://api.exchangeratesapi.io/history?start_at=2017-01-01&end_at=2018-09-01&symbols=EUR&base=GBP");
$json = json_decode($string, true);
foreach($json['rates'] as $date =>$conversion){
$sql = "INSERT INTO Mytable (id, date, conversion)
VALUES ( '$date', ".$conversion['EUR'].")";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
echo "New record created successfully"."<br>";
} else {
echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error."<br>";
}
}
$conn->close();
?>

Answer 2

Thanks for all the Tips, here I have my working solution:
foreach($json['rates'] as $date => $conversion){
$timestamp = strtotime($date);
$sql = "INSERT INTO m_fx_rate_temp
(`base`, `counter`, `fxRate`, `date`) VALUES ('gbp', 'eur', ".$conversion['EUR'].", Date_format(FROM_UNIXTIME($timestamp), '%Y-%m-%d'))";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
echo "New record created successfully"."<br>";
} else {
echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error."<br>";
}
}