How could I loop through this json object in php file?
Question by XCeptable
I have converted an xml object returned from a php function into json format to send it to js file like.
function searchResults($q) { ...
$xml = simplexml_load_string($result);
return json_encode($xml); }
I receive/use it in js like
var msg_top = "<"+"?php echo searchResults('windows');"+"?"+">";
Then I receive it back in php & decoded.
$json = $_POST['msg_top'];
$msg = json_decode($json);
Now how do I loop through it to get all values of its certain properties that I could have get from xml object(which I converted into json). This is how I loop over xml object to get all values of its certain properties:
foreach ($xml->entry as $status) {
echo $status->author->name.''.$status->content);
}
How do I get all those values from decoded json object $msg?
EDITED
I tried in same HTML where I am using js to receive & POST php search function data via ajax, I tried following code to loop through json in php. But it did not show anything.
$obj = searchResults(testword);//serach function returns json encoded data
$obj = json_decode($obj, true);
$count = count($obj);
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++)
{
echo $obj[$i][content];}// using xml for it, I get ouput like foreach ($xml3->entry as
// $status) {status->content}
Answer by Yorirou
By default, json_decode returns an stdClass. stdClass-es can be used the same way as associative arrays with foreach.
Alternatively, you can ask json_decode to return an associative array:
$array = json_decode($_POST['foo'], TRUE);
Answer by Starx
I think you have to use $msg for the FOR LOOP as it is the array.
Try to see what it hold using this
echo "<pre>".print_r($msg)."</pre";
//And if you see the correct array structure
foreach($msg as $key=>$value) {
//do your things
}
