Looping through a json file to find a particular value in PHP - php

Question

My json file look likes
myjson.json
[
{"name":"category_01","data":
[
{"id":"1","word":"ma","given_value":"1"},
{"id":"3","word":"me","given_value":"1"},
] }
[
{"name":"category_02","data":
[
{"id":"1","word":"vea","given_value":"1"},
{"id":"3","word":"ve","given_value":"1"},
] }
So what I want here is, check whether a particular value is in this json array using php. Assume that,
myphp.php
$word = 've';
if this value is in the above array, should find is it in category_01 or category_02. and also want to find given_value of matching word.
I just tried in this way,
$data = file_get_contents ("myjson.json");
$json = json_decode($data, true);
foreach($arr as $item) {
$uses = ($item['word']= $word);
}
This doesn't work. How can I fix this, Please help me!

Answer 1

First of all, the JSON you posted is invalid. I think it should look like this:
[
{
"name": "category_01",
"data": [{
"id": "1",
"word": "ma",
"given_value": "1"
},
{
"id": "3",
"word": "me",
"given_value": "1"
}
]
},
{
"name": "category_02",
"data": [{
"id": "1",
"word": "vea",
"given_value": "1"
},
{
"id": "3",
"word": "ve",
"given_value": "1"
}
]
}
]
Try using on online tool like https://jsonlint.com/ to check your JSON. (if you get errors i recommend build the json again from scratch).
I also recommend checking your json before using it:
if ($arr === null && json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
die("incorrect json data");
}
To get your value you have to KNOW how your data looks like and then process it:
foreach($arr as $category) {
foreach($category['data'] as $data) {
if(strstr($data['word'], $word))
echo $category['name'].' '.$data['word'].' '.$data['given_value']."\n";
}
}