How to parse json array using php foreach? - php

Question

I want to get id,url,img and title of videos in the JSON data.My current code doesn't output anything
could any one tell me what i am doing wrong.Thanks
$code2 = stripslashes($_POST['outputtext']);
$data = json_decode($code2, true);
$i = 0;
foreach($data->videos as $values)
{
echo $values->id . "\n";
echo $values->url . "\n";
echo $values->img . "\n";
echo $values->title . "\n";
$i++;
}
data:
{
"cat": {
"id": "1234567",
"source_id": null,
"title_en": "first season",
"description_en": "This is spring category ",
},
"videos": [{
"id": "312412343",
"url": "\/2015-07-17\/1abcd.mp4",
"img": "image\/44\/\/2015-07-17\/1abcd.jpg",
"title": "first",
}, {
"id": "2342343",
"url": "\/2015-07-16\/2dcdeg.mp4",
"img": "images\/44\/\/2015-07-16\/2dcdeg.jpg",
"title": "second",
}];
}
validated json data:
{
"cat":{
"id":"1234567",
"source_id":null,
"title_en":"first season",
"description_en":"This is spring category "
},
"videos":[
{
"id":"312412343",
"url":"\/2015-07-17\/1abcd.mp4",
"img":"image\/44\/\/2015-07-17\/1abcd.jpg",
"title":"first"
},
{
"id":"2342343",
"url":"\/2015-07-16\/2dcdeg.mp4",
"img":"images\/44\/\/2015-07-16\/2dcdeg.jpg",
"title":"second"
}
]
}

Answer 1

Because you call
$data = json_decode($code2, true);
your $data is an array and not an object as you try to access it. So either access it as regular array, or change 2nd argument of json_decode() to false (or removeit as this is default), as this is what controls conversion behavior.
See docs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
Your data is not a valid JSON (; at the end, redundant and missing comas - it's simply broken).
In case of such problems, var_dump() is pretty helpful to inspect what data you are really working with.