Issues with decoding json object - php

Question

Thanks for your time in reading this post.
My php file is receiving a json object. But I am facing issues while decoding it.
My php code:
$data=$_POST['arg1'];
echo $data;
$json = json_decode($data,true);
echo $json;
$i = 1;
foreach($json as $key => $value) {
print "<h3>Name".$i." : " . $value . "</h3>";
$i++;
}
When I echo data results as below.
{
"SCI-2": {
"quantity": 2,
"id": "SCI-2",
"price": 280,
"cid": "ARTCOTSB"
}
}
When I echo $json, result is as it follows :
Array
Name1 : Array.
Please assist as i need tho access the cid and quantity values in the $data.

Answer 1

json_decode returns an array. And to print array you can use print_r or var_dump.
Now to access your values you can try :
$json["SCI-2"]["quantity"] for quantity and $json["SCI-2"]["cid"] for cid.
Demo : https://eval.in/522350
To access in foreach you need this :
foreach($json as $k) {
foreach($k as $key => $value) {
print "<h3>Name".$i." : " . $value . "</h3>";
}
}

Answer 2

Since you do not know the number of items in your object, use this:
$obj = json_decode($json);
After this, iterate the $obj variable and after that, inside the loop, use the foreach to get each property.
foreach($iteratedObject as $key => $value) {
//your stuff
}