Get sibling value when parsing JSON in PHP - php

Question

I'm parsing a JSON file in PHP and ran into some issues with a data structure that I can't figure out how to make sense of. This is what one data node looks like:
{
"data": [{
"title": "Some title",
"subtitle": "Some subtitle",
"description": "Some description",
"labels": [{
"type": "itemId",
"raw": "someId12345"
}, {
"type": "itemtype",
"raw": "general"
}]
}]
}
This is the very basic code I'm using:
$url = 'data.json';
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$json = json_decode($content, true);
foreach($json['data'] as $item) {
return $item['title'];
return $item['description'];
}
Getting the title and description works, but I'm struggling with those labels. I would like to get the "raw" value for the type itemId (ie. someId12345) but I can't figure out how. The labels aren't in a fixed order, otherwise I could just use something like this to get the ID:
return $item['labels'][0]['raw'];
I tried creating a separate foreach but that only gives me an unidentified index on all values.
foreach($json['data'] as $ID) {
if($ID['labels']['itemId'] == $_GET['labels']['itemId']) {
return $ID['raw'];
break;
}
}
How can I get the sibling value so I'd end up with this data:
Some title
Some description
someId12345

Answer 1

It isn't different from what you're already doing:
foreach ($json['data'] as $item) {
foreach ($item['labels'] as $label) {
var_dump($label['raw']);
}
}
Demo
To filter by type you can use an if construct:
if ($label['type'] === 'itemId') {
var_dump($label['raw']);
}