How can I recreate this JSON array in PHP? - php

Question

I have an array in JSON that I need to recreate in PHP.
{
"items": {
"category": "fruit",
"detail": [
{
"name": "apple",
"good": true
}
]
}
"moreItems": {
"category": "fruit",
"detail": [
{
"name": "banana",
"good": false
}
]
}
}
My hopes are to create this using PHP arrays, then json_encode it.
I've tried to set the array above to a string, and de_coded it, but I'm not getting anywhere.
Thanks.

Answer 1

in PHP
$arr = array("items" => array(
0 => array (
"category" => "fruit",
"detail" => array("name" => "apple", "good" => true )
)
),
"moreItems" => array(
0 => array (
"category" => "fruit",
"detail" => array("name" => "banana", "good" => false)
)
)
);
or for manual assignment that maybe useful if using loops:
$arr["items"]["category"] = "fruit";
$arr["items"]["detail"][0]["name"] = "apple";
$arr["items"]["detail"][0]["good"] = true;
$arr["moreItems"]["category"] = "fruit";
$arr["moreItems"]["detail"][0]["name"] = "banana";
$arr["moreItems"]["detail"][0]["good"] = false;
echo json_encode($arr);
will give you the same output..
Actual output in JSON
Cheers!

Answer 2

If you have a json (in PHP) as a string, and you want to convert them to a native PHP array you can easy do that:
<?php
function objectToArray( $object )
{
if( !is_object( $object ) && !is_array( $object ) )
{
return $object;
}
if( is_object( $object ) )
{
$object = get_object_vars( $object );
}
return array_map( 'objectToArray', $object );
}
$json = '{\
"items": {\
"category": "fruit",\
"detail": [\
{\
"name": "apple",\
"good": true\
}\
]\
}\
"moreItems": {\
"category": "fruit",\
"detail": [\
{\
"name": "banana",\
"good": false\
}\
]\
}\
}';
$array = objectToArray( json_decode($json) );
echo "<pre>".print_r($array, true)."</pre>";
That's it!

Answer 3

Thanks to Michael Berkowski, this worked for me. You can recreate the nested [] in the code below.
If you want to replicate the structure more truly, forcing PHP to use
stdClass objects instead of assoc arrays, you might cast the inner
ones to objects: 'detail' => array(0 => (object)array('name' =>
'banana', 'good' => false))
This below will do just fine for me.
$phpArray = array(
"items" => array(
"category" => "fruit",
"detail" => array(
0 => array(
"name" => "apple", "good" => true
)
)
),
"moreItems" => array(
"category" => "fruit",
"detail" => array(
0 => array(
"name" => "banana",
"good" => false
)
)
)
);