Question

Let’s say my JSON is this:

{
  "achievement": [
    {
      "title": "All Around Submitter",
      "description": "Get one piece of content approved in all six areas.",
      "xp": 500,
      "level_req": 1
    },
    {
      "title": "World-wide Photo Journalist",
      "description": "Get one photo approved in all six areas.",
      "xp": 500,
      "level_req": 1
    },
    {
      "title": "Ready for Work",
      "description": "Sign up and get validated",
      "xp": 50,
      "level_req": 1
    },
    {
      "title": "Asian Pride",
      "description": "Get ten pieces of content approved to a club in an Asian nation.",
      "xp": 1500,
      "level_req": 1
    }
  ]
}

and my PHP code is this, so I load through that json file…:

<?php

$string = file_get_contents("achievements.json");
$json_a=json_decode($string,true);

foreach ($json_a as $key => $value){
  echo  $value[0]['title'] . " <br />";
}

?>

However it only out puts the first array. I know. Only 1. But what about the foreach loop? Why isn’t it loop for each row?

Answer 1

You’re looping over the top level array, which only has one key: achievement

Instead, you should

foreach ($json_a['achievement'] as $key => $value){
  echo  $value['title'] . " <br />";
}

Hint: [0] is a certain code smell.