PHP json cleaning help

[theglobe]

There are still elements in the array with blank spaces. Not sure if i am missing something here

<?php $ch= curl_init('https://coderbyte.com/api/challenges/json/json-cleaning');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

$newdata = json_decode($data,true);

foreach ($newdata as $key => $value) {

if(is_array($value)) {

foreach ($value as $about => $ddata) {

if($ddata == "" || $ddata == 'N/A' || $ddata == '-' ) {

unset($value[$about]); } } }

else{ if($value == "" || $value == 'N/A' || $value == '-' ) {

unset($newdata[$key]); } } }

var_dump($newdata);

curl_close($ch); ?>

[benanamen]

Look at the result of $data.

Edited September 19, 2021 by benanamen

[theglobe]

i dont know what you mean. but thanks for the help 

[theglobe]

$data has the $key and key value pair, but i dont know how to access the [first], and [middle]

[benanamen]

I mean dump the $data variable. There is nothing there to loop over.

var_dump($data);

 

Edited September 19, 2021 by benanamen

[theglobe]

foreach ($newdata as $key => $value){

if(!is_array($value)){

if($value == " " || $value == 'N/A'){

unset($newdata[$key]);

}

}else {

if($key == " " || $key == 'N/A'){

unset($newdata[$key]);

}

}

}

i changed and took ddata, now it deleted the [DOB] since it was NULL, but it didnt remove [middle] that is inside [name]