how to write a json file as a datasource in php? - php

Question

I have some data like this
"name": "abc",
"adr": "bcd",
"partners": {
"101": {
"name": "xyz.com",
"prices": {
"1001": {
"description": "Single Room",
"amount": 125,
"from": "2012-10-12",
"to": "2012-10-13"
},
"1002": {
"description": "Double Room",
"amount": 139,
"from": "2012-10-12",
"to": "2012-10-13"
}
}
Now, I have to write a json with all this data and use it as a data source.
How can I do it ?

Answer 1

The data you posted is not valid JSON. It misses some surrounding and ending brackets.
Ok, let's fix that... and save it as data.json:
{
"name": "abc",
"adr": "bcd",
"partners": {
"101": {
"name": "xyz.com",
"prices": {
"1001": {
"description": "SingleRoom",
"amount": 125,
"from": "2012-10-12",
"to": "2012-10-13"
},
"1002": {
"description": "DoubleRoom",
"amount": 139,
"from": "2012-10-12",
"to": "2012-10-13"
}
}
}
}
}
To access the JSON with PHP you can simply load the file and convert the JSON to an array.
<?php
$jsonFile = "data.json"
$json = file_get_contents($jsonFile);
$data = json_decode($json, TRUE);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($data);
echo "</pre>";
?>

Answer 2

A PHP Script to create a file containing this data as json
// the data you need
$phpData = [
"name" => "abc",
"adr" => "bcd",
"partners" => [
"101" => [
"name" => "xyz.com",
"prices" => [
"1001" => [
"description" => "Single Room",
"amount" => 125,
"from" => "2012-10-12",
"to" => "2012-10-13",
],
"1002" => [
"description" => "Double Room",
"amount" => 139,
"from" => "2012-10-12",
"to" => "2012-10-13",
]
]
]
]
];
// json_encode() that data to a string
$jsonData = json_encode($phpData);
// write that string to your file
file_put_contents('myJsonFile.json', $jsonData);
And to use it as a datasource
$myData = json_decode(
file_get_contents('myJsonFile.json')
);