PHP Save nested json to mysql database - php

Question

I have some json data that i am retrieving from an external url. It is not importing correctly unless i take out some of the brackets. Anyone know how to properly import this json data? I don't really need the "success", "num_items", "build time" and "updated at". Im a noobie. Thanks!
Here is the php
$filename = "http://www.someurl.com/data.json";
$data = file_get_contents($filename);
$array = json_decode($data, true);
foreach($array as $row)
{
$sql = "INSERT INTO table_all_items(name, quality) VALUES (
'".$row["name"]."',
'".$row["quality"]."'
)";
mysqli_query($connect, $sql);
}
Here is data.json
{
"success": true,
"num_items": 7312,
"items": [
{
"name": "Net",
"quality": "New"
},
{
"name": "Ball",
"quality": "New"
},
{
"name": "Hoop",
"quality": "Used"
}
],
"build_time": 320,
"updated_at": 15680
}

Answer 1

You were looping through the wrong element of your array.
As you want to list the items, your loop must look like :
foreach($array["items"] as $row)
//$filename = "http://www.someurl.com/data.json";
//$data = file_get_contents($filename);
$data='{
"success": true,
"num_items": 7312,
"items": [
{
"name": "Net",
"quality": "New"
},
{
"name": "Ball",
"quality": "New"
},
{
"name": "Hoop",
"quality": "Used"
}
],
"build_time": 320,
"updated_at": 15680
}';
$array = json_decode($data, true);
$sql = "INSERT INTO table_all_items(name, quality) VALUES ";
foreach($array["items"] as $row)
{
$sql = $sql." (
'".$row["name"]."',
'".$row["quality"]."'
),";
}
mysqli_query($connect, substr($sql,0,-1));
I also updated the sql query, for it sends only one request with many values, instead on many requests with one value.