Parsing JSON in PHP

Question

I´ve got the following JSON string:

{\"Data\":{\"Recipes\":{\"Recipe_5\":{\"ID\":\"5\",\"TITLE\":\"Spaghetti Bolognese\"},\"Recipe_7\":{\"ID\":\"7\",\"TITLE         


        

Answer 1

You can use the function json_decode to parse JSON data in PHP (>= 5.2.0, at least). Once you have a PHP object, it should be easy to iterate over all recipes/members and access their titles, using something like this:

$data = json_decode($json, true); // yields associative arrays instead of objects
foreach ($data['Data']['Recipes'] as $key => $recipe) {
    echo $recipe['TITLE'];
}

(Sorry I can't actually run this code right now. Hope it helps anyway.)