Question

I am getting a problem in generating values of a JSON string into a dropdown menu.I have a JSON API

http://service.proventustechnologies.com/api/json?username=demo&token=4ce26206-025d-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66&method=getattributevalues&dimensionId=10

When you click it you will see many values like this.

{
"response": {
    "id": 10,
    "values": [
        {
            "id": 258,
            "value": "Cameras"
        },
        {
            "id": 2581,
            "value": "GPS Navigation"
        },
        {
            "id": 259,
            "value": "MP3 Players"
        },
        {
            "id": 260,
            "value": "Cell Phone/PDA"
        },
        {
            "id": 6377,
            "value": "Digital Photo Frame"
        },
        {
            "id": 110,
            "value": "Motherboard"
        },
        {
            "id": 108,
            "value": "Desktop/Server"
        },
        {
            "id": 109,
            "value": "Notebook"
        },
        {
            "id": 10738,
            "value": "E-Book Reader"
        }
    ],
    "name": "System Type"
},
"status": "ok"

}

I want to print all the values such as Cameras,GPS Navigation in a dropdown menu.Thank you for any kind of help.

Answer 1

I can’t really get a feel for what your level of knowledge is, but you should load your data in a html select element for example like this:

<?php
    echo '<select>';

    $jsonData = file_get_contents($url); 
    $jsonDataObject = json_decode($jsonData);

    foreach($jsonDataObject->response->values as $option){
        echo '<option value=' . $option->id . '>' . $option->value . '</option>';
    }

    echo '</select>';
?>