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Md Omar Faruk
Md Omar Faruk

Reputation: 313

Decode json data to array and access the array in PHP(Laravel)

I am trying to submit my form input as json format. After decoding json data into an array I can't access array.

{
    "info": {
        "q_title": "hello",
        "q_description": "ddd",
        "q_visibility": "1",
        "start_date": "Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:11:00 GMT"
    }
}

This is my json data. My Laravel controller is following:

public function store_quiz(Request $request)
    {
        $data = json_decode($request->getContent(), true);

        $input = $arrayName = array(
            'title' => $data["info"]["q_title"], 
        );

        CreateQuiz::create($input);

        $redirect = '/';
        return $redirect;
    }

Unfortunately $data["info"]["q_title"] returns NULL. How to access "q_tittle" of my json??

Upvotes: 7

Views: 6819

Answers (4)

Md Omar Faruk
Md Omar Faruk

Reputation: 313

Solution:

My data was saved in var data in jQuery.

To post data I used

$.ajax({  .... data: {data: data} .... });

instead of

 $.ajax({  .... data: data .... });

So I got unexpected value from $request->getContent().

Upvotes: 0

Harry
Harry

Reputation: 2546

Here's a more Laravel style method of doing this:

public function store_quiz(Request $request)
{
    $input = $arrayName = array(
        'title' => $request->input('info.q_title'), 
    );

    CreateQuiz::create($input);

    $redirect = '/';
    return $redirect;
}

And ensure your javascript app sets the Content-Type header to application/json. Laravel will json_decode() it for you.

Source: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/requests (Retrieving JSON Input Values)

Upvotes: -1

Dhaval Purohit
Dhaval Purohit

Reputation: 1290

just access your data after json_decode like this without a second argument.

$data->info->q_title

and by using the second argument as true, which will convert your object into an array.

$data = json_decode($request->getContents(),true) //then use
$data['info']['q_title']

and if you are not getting anything in $request->getContents() then the problem lies in the request that you are sending.

Also, check this two links for how to retrieve JSON payload

Laravel 5: Retrieve JSON array from $request

Posting JSON To Laravel

Upvotes: 5

Neodan
Neodan

Reputation: 5242

Maybe $request->getContent() content is different from your example, because for me it works.

Try to check what you have in $request->getContent().

Example:

<?php
$source = '{
    "info": {
        "q_title": "hello",
        "q_description": "ddd",
        "q_visibility": "1",
        "start_date": "Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:11:00 GMT"
    }
}';
$data = json_decode($source, true);
echo $data['info']['q_title'];

Upvotes: 1

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