Question

I have a outsource data from :

http://example.com/data/news.json

Here is the example result after decoding :

Array
(
    [popular] => Array
        (
            [last_week] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                           [title] => Business 1
                            [category] => blog/business/local
                        )
                    [1] => Array
                        (
                        [title] => Health 1
                        [category] => blog/health/skincare
                    )
                [2] => Array
                    (
                        [title] => Business 2
                        [category] => blog/business/local
                    )
                [3] => Array
                    (
                        [title] => Health 2
                        [category] => blog/health/skincare
                    )
            )
    )

)

I’m use following method to display it :

$url = 'http://example.com/data/news.json';
$json = file_get_contents($url);
if(!empty($json)) {
$json_data = json_decode($json, true);
$popular_last_week = $json_data['popular']['last_week'];
$count = count($popular_last_week);
$result .= $count.' last week popular article' . "\n";
for ($i = 0;  $i <$count; $i++) {
$result .= 'Title : '.$popular_last_week[$i]['title'] . "\n";
$result .= 'Category : '.$popular_last_week[$i]['category'] . "\n\n";
}
echo $result;
}

and the output data is :

4 last week popular articles

Title : Business 1
Category : blog/business/local

Title : Health 1
Category : blog/health/skincare

Title : Business 2
Category : blog/business/local

Title : Health 2
Category : blog/health/skincare

The question is how to display the output to be following :

2 last week popular Business articles

Title : Business 1
Category : Busines

Title : Business 2
Category : Business

2 last week popular Health articles

Title : Health 1
Category : Health

Title : Health 2
Category : Health

help would be greatly appreciated! thank you.

Answer 1

Do you mean that you only want to show 2 items? You need to use a for loop.

for ($i = 0;  $i < 2; $i++) {
    # display for $i
}

Update:

Ah, I think I understand. You should use a foreach loop and loop through twice:

$categoryItems = array();
foreach ($popular_last_week as $item) {
    $categoryItems[$item['category']][] = $item['title'];
}
foreach ($categoryItems as $category => $items) {
    $result .= count($items) . ' popular in category ' . $category;
    foreach ($items as $item){
        $result .= 'Title: ' . $item['title'] . "\n";
    }
}
echo $result;