CSV to Output an Array that contains a field with JSON data - php

Question

Using Laravel 5.2 and I want to import a CSV and store the records in the database. Name, Surname and Contact Number will be core fields and anything else will just be additional data that I want to store as JSON in an additional info field
example
* | name | surname | contact_number | gender | race |"
* | piet | pokol | 0111111111 | male | race |"
will be stored like so:
* ['name'=>'piet','surname'=>'pokol', 'contact_number'=>'0111111111', 'additional_data'=>'{gender:"male", race:"green"}']
My question is,is it possible to combine an array with JSON array like this?
So far I have it working to make a traditional array with this code
foreach ($reader as $index => $row) {
if ($index === 0) {
$headers = $row;
} else {
$data = array_combine($headers, $row);
$array = array_merge($data, ['client_id' => $client_id, 'list_id' => $list_id]);
Customer::create($array);
}
}
But I need to JSON encode all the field that are not core fields and then add them to the array.
Any body have any advice on this?

Answer 1

Check the below code, it might help you. You can use result array to store in database.
<?php
$data = array(
'name'=> "My Name",
'surname'=> 'My Surname',
'contact_number'=> '0987456321',
'age'=> '38',
'gender'=> 'female',
'address'=> 'NewYork, USA',
);
$core = array('name','surname','contact_number');
$result = array();
$additional = array();
foreach($data as $key => $val) {
if(in_array($key, $core)) {
$result[$key] = $val;
} else {
$additional[$key]= $val;
}
}
if(count($additional)) {
$result['additional'] = json_encode($additional);
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
?>