Laravel use decoded JSON data as PHP Object

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I want to use decoded JSON data as php objects to be able to used as follows:

return $data->title

however im running into a few errors. I am able to connect to the remote API url and get the requested data.

$api        = 'https://remote.api.url/dataset/list';
$json       = file_get_contents($api);
$data       = json_decode($json, true);

dd($data);

When i die and dump the data i see the following:

array:1 [▼
  "data" => array:5 [▼
    0 => array:5 [▼
      "id" => "qk4GtMb8"
      "title" => "SSA's palliative care has an mHealth deficit "
      "image" => "http://gstatic.acfee.org/akamaihd/i/52fdb957187"
      "published_at" => "2016-06-10 08:05:00"
      "created_at" => array:3 [▼
        "date" => "2016-06-07 05:48:34.000000"
        "timezone_type" => 3
        "timezone" => "UTC"
      ]
    ]
    1 => array:5 [▶]
    2 => array:5 [▶]
    3 => array:5 [▶]
    4 => array:5 [▶]
  ]
]

But i am unable to use the recieved data in object form. return $data->title;

i am pretty new to JSON any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

thefallen · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-10 13:41:24Z

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The second parameter of json_decode (which in your case is true) converts the objects to array. From official PHP docs: When TRUE, returned objects will be converted into associative arrays. So if you remove it you should be ok.

answered Jun 10, 2016 at 13:41

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user4258584 Over a year ago

thanks for this. it helped. my final question is i can only return 1 title. in the foreach i have echo $data[0]->title; which works but only returs one. how can i loop through each of them

thefallen Over a year ago

@WesMurray why don't you loop all the $data instead of only the first one $data[0]?

user4258584 Over a year ago

please see here pastebin.com/4ig5H8t5 - but this code seems a bit messy. foreach within a foreach

thefallen Over a year ago

@WesMurray if you have array of data that inside has another arrays I don't see another way to access them other than loop inside a loop.

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