Laravel and JSON response

Question

I have JSON response that looks like this:

{
    "success": true,
    "ownersList": [
       { "propertiesList": [],
         "email": "email@email.com"  },
       { "propertiesList": [],
         "email": "email2@email.com" }
    ]
}

How do I grab all of the propertiesList associated with a specific "email" value?

Answer 1

I don't think you need anything fancy from Laravel to do this. You will probably want to use Guzzle (which is a Laravel dependency) since it's nice and easy CURL wrapper for PHP.

// assumes the API response is in variable $api_response_body_as_a_string
$o_api_response = json_decode($api_response_body_as_a_string);
$owners_list = $o_api_response->owners_list;
$propertiesList = NULL;
foreach($owners_list as $this_owner) {
    if('email@to.find' === $this_owner->email) {
        $propertiesList = $this_owner->$propertiesList;
        break;
    }
}
// $propertiesList has the result or is NULL

Original question (before OP clarification):

You currently don't have any code related to Laravel in your question, so I'll venture a guess that you are querying a table where propertiesList is a foreign key of the ownersList Model: http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#eager-loading

Otherwise, more information about your setup (models and relationships) will be necessary to help you.

Answer 2

You may try something like this:

$obj = json_decode($json);
$item = null;
array_walk($obj->ownersList, function($i) use (&$item) {
    if($i->email == 'email@email.com') $item = $i;
});

// Print out the item
dd($item);

I've used hard coded 'email@email.com' , you may use a variable or whatever thing you have.

Answer 3

I realise the question is quite old and has been answered, but a nice clean way with Laravel is to do something like:

$json = json_decode($response, true);

$properties = collect($json['ownersList'])
    ->where('email', 'email@email.com')
    ->pluck('propertiesList')->all();

Internally, this does similar things to the other questions, but it is much more fluent and easier to read and understand.

See the Collection documentation for more information.