PHP JSON Array - Group by the same value

Question

I\'m thinking how to group my array by objects with the same value.

I have this result from MySQL query:

   Date           StartTime           EndTim         


        

Answer 1

Based on the structure outlined in the question:

Requires php 5.4+ for the json pretty printing, if you are on a lower version just remove it and use long array format.

$in = <<<'JSON'
[
    {
        "Date": "2014-12-01",
        "StartTime": "10:00",
        "EndTime": "16:00"
    },
    {
        "Date": "2014-12-02",
        "StartTime": "12:00",
        "EndTime": "18:00"
    },
    {
        "Date": "2014-12-03",
        "StartTime": "10:00",
        "EndTime": "20:00"
    },
    {
        "Date": "2014-12-03",
        "StartTime": "12:00",
        "EndTime": "20:00"
    }
]
JSON;

$data = json_decode($in, true);
$out = [];

foreach($data as $element) {
        $out[$element['Date']][] = ['StartTime' => $element['StartTime'], 'EndTime' => $element['EndTime']];
}

var_dump(json_encode($out, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT));

To get the exact same output as in the question (the returned output wrapped in a single element json-array you'd need to wrap $out in an other array like this:

json_encode([$out], JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)

Results in:

{
  "2014-12-01": [
    {
      "StartTime": "10:00",
      "EndTime": "16:00"
    }
  ],
  "2014-12-02": [
    {
      "StartTime": "12:00",
      "EndTime": "18:00"
    }
  ],
  "2014-12-03": [
    {
      "StartTime": "10:00",
      "EndTime": "20:00"
    },
    {
      "StartTime": "12:00",
      "EndTime": "20:00"
    }
  ]
}