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Hassam Ali
Hassam Ali

Reputation: 181

Illegal string offset 'name' php - Many Array into 1 Array

With the help of variable categories i have this array in which all the arrays are without key/default index , because of this when i do $categories as $category in foreach and when i echo $category['name'] it gives illegal sting offet.

using laravel blade

enter image description here

What can be the possible solution for this or should i validate array first?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 449

Answers (2)

imran qasim
imran qasim

Reputation: 1050

I think this is your situation, and in my opinion, you are using the wrong variable to decode let me take your image as an example here.

    <?php

      $ex = [
     'result' => 'success',
       'categories' => [
      [
        'id'=>1,
        'name'=>'cat1',
    ],
    [
        'id'=>2, 
        'name'=>'cat21',
    ],
    [
        'id'=>3,
        'name'=>'cat31',
    ],
  ]
];
echo "<pre>";
$res = json_encode($ex);
print_r(json_decode($res));

in this example, I just showed you that I have done json_encode and json_decode easily without any issue and the output of JSON is same as your example image.

enter image description here

Thank You!

Upvotes: 1

MdAshiff
MdAshiff

Reputation: 146

The above code is in JSON format, convert to array first

for example

 $ex = {
         'result':"success",
         'categories':[{
              //your rest of the code
          }]
    }
    $data = json_decode($ex, TRUE);
//next use for each
     foreach($data as $key => $value)
     {
      //rest of your logic
     }

Upvotes: 3

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