PHP - How to dynamically add array to Object request - php

Question

I am doing Jira REST API calls and I am wondering how I can dynamically add more than one component to the components field using REST API in PHP. I have the following code, works when I set it static, but not sure how to do it dynamically.
Example of static component set:
$data = array(
'fields' => array(
'project' => array(
'key' => $rowAnswers["Key"]
),
'summary' => $rowAnswers["Summary"],
'description' => $rowAnswers["Description"],
'issuetype' => array(
'name' => $rowAnswers["IssueType"]
),
'components' => array(
array(
"name" => "component1"
),
array(
"name" => "component2"
)
)
),
);
My array that I want to replace the static content with:
$components = explode(",", $rowAnswers["Components"]);
$arr = array();
foreach($components as $value){
$array = array("name"=>$value);
array_push($arr,$array);
}
Replacing
'components' => array(
array(
"name" => "component1"
),
array(
"name" => "component2"
)
)
with
'components' => [
$arr
]
doesn't work, I get:
"{"error":false,"error_msg":"","data":"{\"errorMessages\":[],\"errors\":{\"components\":\"expected Object\"}}"}"
I see on an api call to get a request it looks like this:
[components] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[name] => component1
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[name] => component2
)
)
But I am unsure how to transform an array into this type of object or request in PHP. Calling with PHP-cURL and json_encoding the data it sends.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

you need to decode your json as associative array by setting the second parameter to true
check out the json_decode
assoc
When TRUE, returned objects will be converted into associative arrays.

Answer 2

To fix this I had to do the following:
When creating the array from the DB:
$components = explode(",", $rowAnswers["Components"]);
$arr = array();
foreach($components as $value){
$array = json_decode(json_encode(array("name"=>$value)), FALSE);
array_push($arr,$array);
}
Then to set the component in the request:
'components' => $arr
Thanks