Looping through a multi-dimentional array in php - php

Question

Initially, I was using a backend-as-a-service (Baas) to collect and simply display data on a webpage via a REST API call. The data was in JSON and decoded into a one dimensional array. I used the code below to successfully loop through the array and display the 'text' values in the array one line at a time on a webpage:
$returned_content = get_data('https://api.backendless.com/v1/data/Alerts'); //returns JSON
$data = json_decode($returned_content); //JSON to array
foreach ($data->results as $item) {
echo '<p>'.$item->text;
}
I switched BaaS providers and now the JSON when decoded is in a multi-dimensional array. An extract of the output is below:
array (
'offset' => 0,
'data' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'created' => 1486047487000,
'___class' => 'Alerts',
'text' => 'Thank you for attending the 2017 BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition in Tampa, FL.',
'ownerId' => NULL,
'updated' => NULL,
'objectId' => '610DF2CC-B333-4BAA-FF93-224B8273B100',
'__meta' => '{"relationRemovalIds":{},"selectedProperties":["created","___class","text","ownerId","updated","objectId"],"relatedObjects":{}}',
),
1 =>
array (
'created' => 1486047378000,
'___class' => 'Alerts',
'text' => 'Thank you for attending the 2017 BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition in Tampa, FL.',
'ownerId' => NULL,
'updated' => NULL,
'objectId' => '43B5620F-2A19-5575-FF9F-B952AB2F0A00',
'__meta' => '{"relationRemovalIds":{},"selectedProperties":["created","___class","text","ownerId","updated","objectId"],"relatedObjects":{}}',
),
2 =>
array (
'created' => 1476139578000,
'___class' => 'Alerts',
'text' => 'test5 pw and backendless',
'ownerId' => NULL,
'updated' => NULL,
'objectId' => '97B1BC3A-3233-2265-FF73-752BA720F300',
'__meta' => '{"relationRemovalIds":{},"selectedProperties":["created","___class","text","ownerId","updated","objectId"],"relatedObjects":{}}',
),
),
'nextPage' => 'https://api.backendless.com/v1/data/Alerts?pageSize=10&offset=10',
'totalObjects' => 44,
)
I am not a pro in PHP and I cannot figure out how to loop through this multi-dimensional array and simply display the 'text' values like I did with the one dimensional array. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Very similar:
foreach ($data['data'] as $item) {
echo '<p>'.$item['text'];
}
The notation is different use $array['key'] for the equivalent of $object->key
Whatever was in $data->results is now in $data['data'].
That' should be it.
I might call json_decode(json_encode($dataArray)) to get a stdClass project representation of the array. Sometime working with -> notation is just easier.
Just noticed you were kind of mixing up, array and object terms. I think the new BaaS just uses a different key for the actual data. Try this:
$returned_content = get_data('https://api.backendless.com/v1/data/Alerts'); //returns JSON
$data = json_decode($returned_content['data']); //JSON to array
foreach ($data as $item) {
echo '<p>'.$item->text;
}