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Edit

Thanks for all the input on this, I did find error in my question so modifying now. Sorry for that.

I am trying to figure out how to return the last object in the JSON string I have rendered. The two functions I am working with:

public function revision($return = false)
    {
        $id = $this->input->post('galleryID');
        $data = array('revision_count' => $this->revision->count_revision($id) );

        if($return){
            return json_encode($data);
        }
        else {
            echo json_encode($data);
        }
    }

public function last_revision()
        {
            $allRevisions = json_decode($this->revision(),true);
            return end($allRevisions);
        }

The issue is that end() returns error stating that 1st parameter should be array.

Thanks for any help on this.

Answer 1

It is important to note here that json_decode returns an instance of stdClass by default. Try using json_decode($jsonstring, true) to return the JSON as a PHP associative array.

However, You haven’t included what the $this->revision() method does. Could you possibly show that portion of the code, since that is the function you are getting a return value from?

Edit:

Alright, after we saw the right function in your code, here are a couple of things I would like to say:

• You have added a $return parameter to your revision method, but you aren’t using it when you need to. You should change $this->revision() to $this->revision(true) in your last_revision method.
• If you’re going to return data from the revision() method, there’s not much of a point in json_encodeing it, just to json_decode the result. Just pass back the raw data array.

• Once you have changed both of these things, this should work:

  $allRevisions = $this->revision(true); return end($allRevisions['revision_count']);