Json Decode Presentation With Category - php

Question

I got these Json data:
[{"category":"Pizza","name":"Beef Pronto","desc":"Description of Beef Pronton here","price":"12"},
{"category":"Drink","name":"Cool Delight","desc":"Description of Coold Delight here","price":"5"},
{"category":"Drink","name":"Cola","desc":"Description of Cola","price":"4"}
]
With Javascript I have successfully managed data to present as follow:
Pizza
-Beef Pronto: Description of Beef Pronton here: 12
Drink
-Cool Delight: Description of Coold Delight here: 5
-Cola: Description of Cola: 4
any Idea how to do it with PHP ?
-->Ok guys, this is How I do it with PHP:
<?
$listedmenuJSON = '[{"category":"Pizza","name":"Beef Pronto","desc":"Description of Beef Pronton here","price":"12"},
{"category":"Drink","name":"Cool Delight","desc":"Description of Coold Delight here","price":"5"},
{"category":"Drink","name":"Cola","desc":"Description of Cola","price":"4"}
]';
$json_decoded = json_decode($listedmenuJSON);
foreach ($json_decoded as $categoryvalue){
//echo $categoryvalue->category."<br/>";
$tempcategoryvalue[] = $categoryvalue->category;
$arrunique = array_unique($tempcategoryvalue);
}
foreach ($arrunique as $tmpcategory){
echo '<br/><b>'.$tmpcategory.'</b></br>';
foreach ($json_decoded as $tempo){
if($tempo->category == $tmpcategory){
echo $tempo->name.'<br/>';
echo '<i>'.$tempo->desc.'.......</i>';
echo $tempo->price.'<br/>';
}
}
}
?>
It will generate as following:
Pizza
Beef Pronto
Description of Beef Pronton here.......12
Drink
Cool Delight
Description of Coold Delight here.......5
Cola
Description of Cola.......4

Answer 1

If you got json in PHP Code Use Following line to convert json to PHP array and manipulate array for desire output
$array = json_decode($json,TRUE);
In javascript user below code to convert your json to array.
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(responce);

Answer 2

Try using the PHP function 'json_decode' (http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php). This will create an associative array in PHP. It should be pretty simple to access and manipulate data thereon.

Answer 3

If you use a SQL server then you can select form the table using "group by category"
Else, you can just verify many times the arrays.
SQL:
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM 'table'
GROUP BY category
having (category=\"Pizza\");"
--SELECT * FROM 'table'
--GROUP BY category
--having (category="Drink");
if you use this in php you must use sql_query("query")