How to save JSON into ini-file with php? - php

Question

I have a datastream as JSON, I want to parse it and want to save result in ini-file :
{
"books": [{
"id": "1",
"date": "2017-03-12",
"date_text": "sunday 12 march",
"title": "title text"
}, {
"id": "2",
"date": "2017-03-12",
"date_text": "sunday 12 march",
"title": "title text"
}]
}
This is my sample data and I would like to know if there is a way to save it into a file no matter if it contain 1 or more "id:s" (Items)
I know how to parse the JSON but not how to save it down to a file in correct format for an ini.
Preferable format:
[Books 0]
id= 1
date= 2017-03-12
date_text=sunday 12 march
title= title text
[Books 1]
id"=2
date=2017-03-12
date_text=sunday 12 march
title=title text

Answer 1

You can try Zend Config for this task. Open your terminal and add zend-config to your project as dependency (assuming you already using composer):
composer require zendframework/zend-config
Now you can try following,
$json = <<<JSON
{
"books": [{
"id": "1",
"date": "2017-03-12",
"date_text": "sunday 12 march",
"title": "title text"
}, {
"id": "2",
"date": "2017-03-12",
"date_text": "sunday 12 march",
"title": "title text"
}]
}
JSON;
$config = new \Zend\Config\Config(json_decode($json, true), true);
$writer = new \Zend\Config\Writer\Ini();
echo $writer->toString($config);
The output will be:
[books]
0.id = "1"
0.date = "2017-03-12"
0.date_text = "sunday 12 march"
0.title = "title text"
1.id = "2"
1.date = "2017-03-12"
1.date_text = "sunday 12 march"
1.title = "title text"
Your JSON format should be look like below to produce desired output you wrote in question:
{
"books 0": {
"id": "1",
"date": "2017-03-12",
"date_text": "sunday 12 march",
"title": "title text"
},
"books 1" : {
"id": "2",
"date": "2017-03-12",
"date_text": "sunday 12 march",
"title": "title text"
}
}