Extract Data from Multidem array - php

Question

I have been trying to extract the following data for each student from a large multidimensional array (Shown further down)
Data -> gender,
Data -> grade,
Data -> name -> first,
Data -> name -> last,
Data -> name -> middle,
Data -> student_number,
Data -> ID
I have tried various options through searching including Slice, Splice, and a for loop.
Every attempt has been met with failure on all or some of the data. I have never been able to get to the 3rd nested data of First, Middle, and Last name.
How can I take a large multidem array like this, and extract the data listed above in a foreach loop so I can import it into a database? I feel like it is alot simpler than I am making it. I have not included any code as I have yet to have anything that seems remotely useful.
Here is a sample array below. Thanks!
Array
(
[data] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[data] => Array
(
[gender] => M
[dob] => 7/17/2008
[email] =>
[grade] => 2
[schools] => Array
(
[0] =>12345
)
[school] => 12345
[created] => 2018-04-16T14:01:00.437Z
[name] => Array
(
[first] => Jacob
[last] => Smith
[middle] => Rabbitboom
)
[location] => Array
(
[zip] =>
[address] =>
[city] =>
[lat] =>
[lon] =>
[state] =>
)
[district] => 123456
[last_modified] => 2018-04-16T14:01:00.437Z
[race] =>
[hispanic_ethnicity] =>
[graduation_year] =>
[student_number] => 1234567
[credentials] => Array
(
[district_username] =>
)
[id] => 123456
)
[uri] =>
)
[1] => Array
(
[data] => Array
(
[gender] => F
[dob] => 7/17/2008
[email] =>
[grade] => 2
[schools] => Array
(
[0] =>12346
)
[school] => 12345
[created] => 2018-04-16T14:01:00.437Z
[name] => Array
(
[first] => Jason
[last] => Smith
[middle] => RobesPerrie
)
[location] => Array
(
[zip] =>
[address] =>
[city] =>
[lat] =>
[lon] =>
[state] =>
)
[district] => 123456
[last_modified] => 2018-04-16T14:01:00.437Z
[race] =>
[hispanic_ethnicity] =>
[graduation_year] =>
[student_number] => 1234568
[credentials] => Array
(
[district_username] =>
)
[id] => 123459
)
[uri] =>
)

Answer 1

The easiest approach might be to extract the nested data arrays and loop that:
foreach(array_column($array['data'], 'data') as $data) {
echo $data['gender'];
echo $data['name']['first'];
}
If schools is variable length then you'll need to loop that or implode(', ', $data['schools']).