Laravel access JSON object in controller

Question

I have this array in the controller after the submitted form holds in variable $product.

[
    {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "nancy",
        "cost": 34,
        "quantity": 0,
        "barcode": 12345,
        "category_id": 2,
        "created_at": "2020-07-05T16:04:10.000000Z",
        "updated_at": "2020-07-09T04:06:09.000000Z"
    },
    {
        "id": 5,
        "name": "jk",
        "cost": 100,
        "quantity": 2,
        "barcode": 147258,
        "category_id": 2,
        "created_at": "2020-07-08T20:34:56.000000Z",
        "updated_at": "2020-10-18T13:09:16.000000Z"
    }
]

How can I access the properties in objects like id, name, barcode ?

I think you actually mean to say you have an array of objects and as such the output is actually: [0 => '{"id":2,"name":"nancy","cost":34,"quantity":0,"barcode":12345,"category_id":2,"created_at":"2020-07-05T16:04:10.000000Z","updated_at":"2020-07-09T04:06:09.000000Z"}', 1 => '{"id":5,"name":"jk","cost":100,"quantity":2,"barcode":147258,"category_id":2,"created_at":"2020-07-08T20:34:56.000000Z","updated_at":"2020-10-18T13:09:16.000000Z"}']; ? — Ballard
– Ballard, Commented Oct 19, 2020 at 16:21

Haseeb Javed · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-19 16:01:48Z

2

If you want to make it as array of array.

$products = json_decode($products, true);  // Return array of array.

foreach($products as $product){
    echo $product['name']; 
}

edited Oct 19, 2020 at 16:01

answered Oct 19, 2020 at 15:50

Haseeb Javed

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Dark Knight Over a year ago

You are converting it into array and then accessing it as object. It will not work

Haseeb Javed Over a year ago

it assosiative array

Haseeb Javed Over a year ago

in PHP json_decode convert json data into PHP associated array For Ex: $php-array= json_decode($json-data, true); print_r($php-array);

Dark Knight Over a year ago

what i'm saying is after converting $products to array, you can't access properties like $product->name, now it should be $product['name']

gbalduzzi Over a year ago

php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php by using true as the second argument, you are converting it to an associative array. Arrow syntax -> does not work anymore

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Tayyab Hussain · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-19 16:29:34Z

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Just decode it, use json_decode

$products = json_decode($products, true);  // When TRUE, JSON objects will be returned as associative arrays

foreach($products as $product){
    echo $product['id']; 
}

answered Oct 19, 2020 at 16:29

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