getting relational results from three tables into one nested array - php

Question

i have googled for solution to my problem but nun helped me.
here i have three tables items, feeds and images. each item has one feed and one or more images.
i have 3 functions. one is to return records from items table the second one receives feeds_id (foreign key in items table) then return records from feeds table. the third function is to return all images related to items_id.
those functions are :
* To get all items in database:
function get_items(){
return $query = Database::getInstance('db')
->table('items')
->columns(
'id',
'items.rowid',
'items.feed_id as feed_id',
'title' )
->findAll();
}
* To get feed data from feeds table :
function get_feeds($id){
return $query = Database::getInstance('db')
->table('feeds')
->eq('id',$id)
->findAll();
}
* To get image data from images table :
function get_images($id){
return $query = Database::getInstance('db')
->table('images')
->columns('items_id','src as image_url',
'title as image_title',
'alt')
->eq('items_id',$id)
->findAll();
}
Then i have the following code to call those function and display the result in jsonformat:
$response['items'] = array();
$response['feeds'] = array();
$response['images'] = array();
foreach ($items = get_items() as $item) {
$response['items'][] = array(
'id' => (int)$item['rowid'],
'feed_id' => (int)$item['feed_id'],
'title' => $item['title'],
);
foreach ($feeds = get_feeds((int)$item['feed_id']) as $feed) {
$response['feeds'][] = array(
'title' => $feed['title'],
'logo_url' => $feed['logo_url'],
'site_url' => $feed['site_url'],
);
}
foreach ($images = get_images($item['id']) as $image) {
$response['images'][] = array(
'id' => $image['items_id'],
'url' => $image['image_url'],
'thumb' => $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . /myServer/images/thumbs/'. 'thumb_'.basename($image['image_url']),
'title' => $image['image_title'],
'alt' => $image['alt']
);
}
}
echo json_encode($response, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
so, my expectation is to get json output like:
"items": [
{
"id": ,
"feed_id":
"title":
"feeds": [
{
"title": ,
"logo_url": ,
"site_url": "
}
]
"images": [
{
"id": ,
"url": ",
"thumb":
"title": "",
"alt": ""
},
{
....
}
]
}]
i mean each item array should include nested arrays of its related data coming from get_feeds and get_images functions.
instead of that, i get response like :
//here i select two items from my db
"items": [
{ //first_item
"id": ,
"feed_id":
"title":
},
{ //second_item
"id": ,
"feed_id":
"title":
}
],
"feeds": [
{ // feed data for first item
"title": ,
"logo_url": ,
"site_url": "
},
{ // feed data for second item
"title": ,
"logo_url": ,
"site_url": "
}
],
"images": [
{ // image data for first item
"id": ,
"url": ",
"thumb":
"title": "",
"alt": ""
},
{ // other images data
....
}
]
}]
as you see i am getting output without keeping relation between items, feeds and images, all of them are shown independently.
my queries are fine but i am suspecting error in my foreach statements.
i could fix this issue by joining those tree tables in one query, but i don't want to do that because i need to do validation and other operations to output comes from each table.
i appreciate your help

Answer 1

i found the solution. it is very easy :)
it is just like:
$response['items'][] = array(
'id' => (int)$item['rowid'],
'feed_id' => (int)$item['feed_id'],
'title' => $item['title'],
'feeds' => array(
)
'images' => array(
)
);