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Sam Joni
Sam Joni

Reputation: 159

Read and return data from json file in laravel 4

I have a file called data.txt in the public path , it has this 

{"data":[{"name": "Jack", "age": 13},{"name": "Mary", "age": 15}]}

and I want to read these data and also return the age for both Jack and Mary,

I know that I can read the file using the decode_json(file_get_contents) but I have no clue how to fetch the data and return specific records from it.

Any help is much appreciated !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4496

Answers (1)

jedrzej.kurylo
jedrzej.kurylo

Reputation: 40909

You can load the file and decode the content with:

$content = json_decode(file_get_contents($path), true);

This will give you the associative array that contains your JSON content.

You can access data in user objects like that:

$userData = $content['data']; // content of "data" field
$jackData = $userData[0]; // first object in "data" array - Jack
$jackName = $jackData['name']; // Jack's name

Upvotes: 3

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