JSON decode nested array PHP loop

Question

I know there are similar questions all over Stackoverflow, but I did not find any help for the problem I'm having.

I have this JSON:

[{ "name": "Name0", "services": [ [{ "Service": "Service00", "Description": "Desc00" }, { "Service": "Service01", "Description": "Desc01" }] ] }, { "name": "Name1", "services": [ [{ "Service": "Service10", "Description": "Desc10" }] ] }] 

I loop through it with:

$quoteJson = json_decode($quoteJson); foreach($quoteJson as $mydata) { echo $mydata->name . "<br>"; foreach($mydata->services as $key => $value) { echo $value[$key]->Service . "<br>"; echo $value[$key]->Description . "<br>"; } } 

And the result I get is:

Name0 Service00 Desc00 Name1 Service10 Desc10 

I am not able to loop through the service elements, to get:

Name0 Service00 Desc00 Service01 Desc01 Name1 Service10 Desc10 

Answer 1

For some reason, services is an array in an array. Made a small change to your code:

foreach($quoteJson as $mydata) { echo $mydata->name . "<br>"; foreach($mydata->services[0] as $key => $value) { echo $value->Service . "<br>"; echo $value->Description . "<br>"; } } 

And now it it returns:

Name0
Service00
Desc00
Service01
Desc01
Name1
Service10
Desc10

Answer 2

Since $mydata->services is multi dimensional array, you need to loop $value variable.

$quoteJson = json_decode($quoteJson); foreach($quoteJson as $mydata) { echo $mydata->name . "\n"; foreach($mydata->services as $key => $value) { foreach($value as $k=>$v){ // loop the array echo $v->Service . "\n"; echo $v->Description . "\n"; } } } 

Answer 3

The output is not as expected because you have missed an inner loop. the code below works fine.

foreach($quoteJson as $mydata) { echo $mydata->name . "<br>"; foreach($mydata->services as $key => $value) { foreach($value as $innerdata){ echo $innerdata->Service . "<br>"; echo $innerdata->Description . "<br>"; } } 

}