Parse Daunting JSON: PHP - php

Question

So I have a huge JSON chunk of data that I need to parse. It has been converted to a PHP array with json_decode. Below is one element of the data object in the PHP array. There are hundreds of these elements, below is just one:
'{
"data": [
{
"id": 3215,
"user_id": {
"id": 99106,
"name": "Rusty shackleford",
"email": "Rusty.shackleford#company.com",
"has_pic": true,
"pic_hash": "someHash",
"active_flag": true,
"value": 99106
},
"person_id": {
"name": "rusty shackleford",
"email": [
{
"label": "Work",
"value": "rusty shackleford#email.com",
"primary": true
}
],
"phone": [
{
"label": "Fax",
"value": "666-666-6666",
"primary": false
},
{
"label": "main",
"value": "666-666-6666",
"primary": false
},
{
"label": "main",
"value": "666-666-6666",
"primary": true
}
],
"value": 666
},
"org_id": {
"name": "shackleford, Inc.",
"people_count": 23,
"cc_email": "rusty#6theShack.com",
"value": 1013
},
"stage_id": 8,
"title": "rusty\'s Projects",
"value": 0,
"currency": "USD",
"add_time": "2013-01-15 00:00:00",
"update_time": "2015-07-07 14:28:15",
"stage_change_time": "2013-10-30 14:43:09",
"active": true,
"deleted": false,
"status": "open",
"next_activity_date": "2015-07-07",
"next_activity_time": null,
"next_activity_id": 3771,
"last_activity_id": 252,
"last_activity_date": "2013-11-16",
"lost_reason": null,
"visible_to": "3",
"close_time": null,
"pipeline_id": 1,
"won_time": null,
"lost_time": null,
"products_count": null,
"files_count": null,
"notes_count": 21,
"followers_count": 1,
"email_messages_count": null,
"activities_count": 2,
"done_activities_count": 1,
"undone_activities_count": 1,
"reference_activities_count": 0,
"participants_count": 1,
"b98336b40c8420dc2f1401d6451b1b47198eee6d": "",
"17a14a9da9815451ff5ffc669d407e8b0376b06b": 4616,
"3eedd4fd08f44a72d911dc4934a6916f3b31911b": "",
"52ede287f6c55eb6b12821ca24f74098779abdce": "",
"13916ba291ab595f27aefbff8b6c43a3fb467b72": "shackleford LLP",
"6330684838740625ea6a7d260f102a1961b2fae1": "shackleford, Inc.",
"ded823307920bf70cea49c45684148fd295e179a": "",
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_lat": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_long": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_subpremise": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_street_number": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_route": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_sublocality": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_locality": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_admin_area_level_1": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_admin_area_level_2": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_country": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_postal_code": null,
"ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_formatted_address": null,
"09358ea07e1a1007d24bc068c723bf1f79e8359d": null,
"expected_close_date": null,
"7cce64c3abb5f28a260bc9d6719a43367bae5dfe": null,
"stage_order_nr": 10,
"person_name": "shackleford",
"org_name": "shackleford, Inc.",
"next_activity_subject": "pocket Sand!",
"next_activity_type": "task",
"next_activity_duration": "00:00:00",
"next_activity_note": "",
"formatted_value": "$0",
"weighted_value": 0,
"formatted_weighted_value": "$0",
"rotten_time": null,
"owner_name": "Rusty shackleford",
"cc_email": "rusty+stuff3215#shackleford.com",
"org_hidden": false,
"person_hidden": false
}
]
}'
Below is some of my code so far:
$response = json_decode($json_response, true);
//$ksortResult = ksort($response['data']);
foreach($response as $field){
echo $field;
}
If anyone can help me step through the json object with arrays, I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, I'm trying to sort the data based on keys before I step through it.
The desired output would be like the one below:
id|user_id|person_id|org_id|stage_id|title|value|currency|add_time|update_time|stage_change_time|active|deleted|status|next_activity_date|next_activity_time|next_activity_id|last_activity_id|last_activity_date|lost_reason|visible_to|close_time|pipeline_id|won_time|lost_time|products_count|files_count|notes_count|followers_count|email_messages_count|activities_count|done_activities_count|undone_activities_count|reference_activities_count|participants_count|b98336b40c8420dc2f1401d6451b1b47198eee6d|_17a14a9da9815451ff5ffc669d407e8b0376b06b|_3eedd4fd08f44a72d911dc4934a6916f3b31911b|_52ede287f6c55eb6b12821ca24f74098779abdce|_13916ba291ab595f27aefbff8b6c43a3fb467b72|_6330684838740625ea6a7d260f102a1961b2fae1|ded823307920bf70cea49c45684148fd295e179a ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_lat ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_long|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_subpremise|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_street_number|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_route|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_sublocality|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_locality|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_admin_area_level_1|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_admin_area_level_2|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_country|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_postal_code|ed35f69413af7156058d1081321e7bb227577eef_formatted_address|_09358ea07e1a1007d24bc068c723bf1f79e8359d|expected_close_date|_7cce64c3abb5f28a260bc9d6719a43367bae5dfe|stage_order_nr|person_name org_name|next_activity_subject|next_activity_type|next_activity_duration|next_activity_note|formatted_value|weighted_value|formatted_weighted_value|rotten_time owner_name|cc_email|org_hidden|person_hidden|user_name|user_email|person_phone_1 person_phone_2|person_phone_3|org_people_count
3215|99106|666|1013|8|rusty's Projects|0|USD|1/15/2013 0:00|7/7/2015 14:28|10/30/2013 14:43|TRUE|FALSE|open|7/7/2015|null|3771|252|11/16/2013|null|3|null|1|null|null|null|null|21|1|null|2|1|1|0|1||4616|||shackleford LLP|shackleford,Inc.||null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|null|10|shackleford|shackleford, Inc.|pocket Sand!|task|0:00:00||$0|0|$0|0:00:00|Rusty shackleford|rusty+stuff3215#shackleford.com|FALSE|FALSE|Rusty shackleford|Rusty.shackleford#company.com|666-666-6666|666-666-6666|666-666-6666|23

Answer 1

So if I understand correctly you want to flatten the json structure? If that's the case, take a look at look at array_walk_recursive:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-walk-recursive.php
Which would look something like this:
$newArray = [];
array_walk_recursive( $formerlyJsonArray,
function($value, $key) use (&$newArray) {
$newArray[$key] = $value;
});
Or take a look at array_reduce:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-reduce.php