Question

I have a 3rd party script that loops through every returned value and echos it.

I want to limit the amount to 3 loops but am having issues.

current loop:

  foreach($json->data as $v)
  {
  echo  $v->from->name."<br>";
  }

I want to do something like:

for ($i=0;$i<3;$i++)
                {
  echo  $v->from->name."<br>";
 }

Is there any work around without having to rework the whole script.

Answer 1

If $json is a integer-indexed array (although I doubt it)

for ($i=0;$i<3;$i++)
{
    echo  $json->data->from->name."<br>";
}

otherwise a less elegant solution would be

$i = 0;

foreach($json->data as $v)
{
    echo  $v->from->name."<br>";
    if(++$i == 3) {break;}
}

finally

foreach(slice($json->data, 0, 3, TRUE) as $v)
{
    echo  $v->from->name."<br>";
}