Simple JSONReader code not working
I am trying to use JSONReader (along with PHP & XPATH) to parse a very large JSON file, then display search results. A stream parser (such as JSONREader) is recommended over JSON_decode when parsing large files. This simple code below is not displaying any results (in the echo statements). Any advice is greatly appreciated.
$reader = new JSONReader();
$reader->open('products.json');
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
while ($reader->read() && $reader->name !== 'product') {
continue;
}
while ($reader->name === 'product') {
$node = $dom->importNode($reader->expand(), TRUE);
$name = $xpath->evaluate('string(name)', $node);
$price = $xpath->evaluate('string(price)', $node);
echo "Name: " . $name . ". ";
echo "Price: " . $price . ". ";
$reader->next('product');
}
Here is a snippet of the JSON file:
{
"products": {
"product" : [
{ "name" : "Dell 409", "price" : 499.99},
{ "name" : "HP Lap top", "price" : 599.99},
{ "name" : "Compaq 11", "price" : 299.99}
] }}
