Getting values out of complex Associative Array in PHP - php

Question

I'm trying to integrate a 3rd party service with a Restful APi (first time doing something like this). I have managed to send the query, get a response from them, and converted it into a JSON array using:
$company_json = file_get_contents($3rdparty_url);
$company_array = json_decode($company_json, true);
The problem I'm having is getting the values out of this complex array.
This is what the array looks like:
{
"response":{
"pagination":{
"next_url":"http:\/\/someurl.org\/companies?limit=25&offset=25",
"total":33
},
"data":[
{
"id":"09934451",
"name":"Acme Incorporated"
},
{
"id":"00435820",
"name":"Acme Group Limited"
},
{
"id":"06841797",
"name":"Acme Ltd"
}
]
},
"request_id":"570bf0ca96a63"
}
I'm able to get the 'name' values out of the array by traversing it with some PHP like this:
foreach ($company_array as $data1 => $value1) {
foreach ($value1 as $data2 => $value2) {
foreach ($value2 as $data3 => $value3) {
foreach ($value3 as $data4 => $value4) {
if ($data4 == 'name') {
print $value4;
}
}
}
}
}
But what I really want to do is grab the values and put them into some sort of format like:
<ul>
<li id="09934451">Acme Incorporated</li>
<li id="00435820">Acme Group Limited</li>
<li id="06841797">Acme Ltd</li>
</ul>
From my searching around it looked like I would be able to do it with something like this, but it doesn't work. The $value4['id'] & $value4['name'], only print out the first letter of the values as if I were using $value4[0]:
foreach ($company_array as $data1 => $value1) {
foreach ($value1 as $data2 => $value2) {
foreach ($value2 as $data3 => $value3) {
foreach ($value3 as $data4 => $value4) {
print '<li id="' . $value4['id'] . '">' . $value4['name'] . '</li>';
}
}
}
}
I don't think I can be too far off but it's starting to do my head in.

Answer 1

Your over complicating it, it's very simple...
foreach ($company_array['response']['data'] as $data) {
echo '<li id="' . $data['id'] . '">' . $data['name'] . '</li>';
}