PHP decode nested JSON

Question

I\'ve a nested JSON code as (it\'s actually my facebook status updates)

{
   \"data\": [
      {
         \"id\": \"1290561400000000\",
         \"from\": {
         


        

Answer 1

Use json_decode():

$decoded = json_decode($json_string);
$comments = $decoded->data[0]->comments->data;
foreach($comments as $comment){
   $name = $comment->from->name;
   $message = $comment->message;
   //do something with it
}

Answer 2

You can use the json_decode function to convert it to array and then iterate over the array using foreach loop.

$array = json_decode($json, true);

foreach($array as $key => $value)
{
  // your code....
}

The second option to json_decode is whether or not you want to convert it to an array.