Trying to convert a variable in PHP to an array [duplicate] - php
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I've got a variable that I've retrieved from an API call, and am trying to convert the output in to an array. Below is an example of the output:
{"id":"4335416","linkId":4335416,"title":"Website 1","slashtag":"1","destination":"http://website1.com","createdAt":"2017-09-20T12:10:56.000Z","updatedAt":"2017-12-01T13:59:35.000Z","status":"active","clicks":722,"lastClickDate":"2018-01-28T15:47:21.000Z","lastClickAt":"2018-01-28T15:47:21.000Z","isPublic":false,"shortUrl":"url.st/1","domainId":"abc123","domainName":"url.st","domain":{"id":"abc123","ref":"/domains/abc123","fullName":"url.st","active":true},"https":false,"favourite":false,"creator":{"id":"321cba","fullName":"user123","avatarUrl":"https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/"}},
{"id":"4335402","linkId":4335402,"title":"Website 2","slashtag":"2","destination":"http://website2.com","createdAt":"2017-09-20T12:09:29.000Z","updatedAt":"2017-12-01T13:58:56.000Z","status":"active","clicks":234,"lastClickDate":"2018-01-28T13:44:29.000Z","lastClickAt":"2018-01-28T13:44:29.000Z","isPublic":false,"shortUrl":"url.st/2","domainId":"abc123","domainName":"url.st","domain":{"id":"abc123","ref":"/domains/abc123","fullName":"url.st","active":true},"https":false,"favourite":false,"creator":{"id":"321cba","fullName":"user123","avatarUrl":"https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/"}},
{"id":"4335375","linkId":4335375,"title":"Website 3","slashtag":"3","destination":"http://website3.com","createdAt":"2017-09-20T12:07:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2017-12-20T18:43:17.000Z","status":"active","clicks":111,"lastClickDate":null,"lastClickAt":null,"isPublic":false,"shortUrl":"url.st/3","domainId":"abc123","domainName":"url.st","domain":{"id":"abc123","ref":"/domains/abc123","fullName":"url.st","active":true},"https":false,"favourite":false,"creator":{"id":"321cba","fullName":"user123","avatarUrl":"https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/"}}
I would like it to create an array within an array, as below:
$myArray = array( array( id => "4335416",
linkId => 4335416,
title => "Website 1",
slashtag => "1",
destination => "http://website1.com",
...
),
array( id => "4335402",
linkId => 4335402,
title => "Website 2",
slashtag => "2",
destination => "http://website2.com",
...
)
array( id => "4335375",
linkId => 4335375,
title => "Website 3",
slashtag => "3",
destination => "http://website3.com",
...
)
);
Completely stumped on this... Although my head has been spinning all day trying to do stuff :(
Thanks a lot :)
You can convert it to an array with:
json_decode($myArray, true);
The second argument true will make it an associative array which has the named keys from your JSON data.
json_decode documentation
You are looking for json_decode('APIcallValue', true)
PHP manual
This API response appears to be JSON.
Try doing:
$myArray = json_decode($api_response, true);
Where $api_response is the API response variable
Thanks for that guys...
json_decode($api_response, true)
worked perfect. How simple when you know all the different commands! lmao. Should've just posted here first off... Saved me a couple of hours...
Thanks again
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Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
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array("id" => "2", "name" => "chung fu")
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My hope the result is : Array ( [menu1]=>101 [menu2]=>201 [menu3]=>301 )
I want push new [menu3]=>'301' but I dont know how. Please help me, the answer will be appreciate
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so for associative arrays is a no match
another suitable function for what you want but it requires an array argument is array_merge
$result = array_merge(array("one" => "1"), array("two" => "2"));
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