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<?php $json = '{ "articles": [ { "id": 1, "name": "Josh" }, { "id": 2, "name": "Jenny" }, { "id": 3, "name": "Chris" } ] }'; Function loopThruJSON ($json,$fieldValue,$checkValue) { $json = json_decode($json); foreach($json->articles as $articles){ if($articles->$fieldValue==$checkValue){ return "found ".$fieldValue." equal to ".$checkValue; } else { return false; } } } echo loopThruJSON($json, 'id', 1); echo loopThruJSON($json, 'name', 'Josh');
Output for 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.19, 8.3.0 - 8.3.7
found id equal to 1found name equal to Josh

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