Parsing JSON from a URL (PHP CURL) [duplicate] - php

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So I've been stumped and I'm not sure how I would continue this
as an example let's just use books.com as the URL and let's say the JSON response from the URL is
[{"title":"first_title","description":"second_title"},
{"title":"second_title","description":"second_description"}]
How would I print all of the titles (just the titles) without knowing exactly how many there are.
I know that I would need to loop through the JSON but I'm unsure how, if I could have any guidance that would be fantastic.

Answer 1

You should get more familiar with json_decode() and foreach().
First you need to decode json (into array in this example) and then iterate through all elements.
Example of working code:
<?php
$json = '[{"title":"first_title","description":"second_title"},
{"title":"second_title","description":"second_description"}]';
$jsonArray = json_decode($json,true);
foreach($jsonArray as $entry) {
echo $entry['title'].'<br>';
}
Output:
first_title
second_title

Answer 2

This key is to actually convert the JSON response into a PHP associative array by using json_decode and then loop through it.
// Convert the JSON into a PHP associative Array
$response = json_decode($curlResponse,true);
// Loop through the array
foreach ($response as $value) {
echo $value['title'];
echo '<br/>';
}