how to take custom amount of data from foreach loop php laravel

Question

So in Eloquent there is a take() and skip() functions works like this:

$users = DB::table('users')->skip(10)->take(5)->get();

But now I'm reading data from a json file:

$path = storage_path() . "/app/public/userexam.json";    

json_decode(file_get_contents($path), true);

So after reading data, I want to use a foreach loop:

foreach($json as $js){
   ...
}

But I do need to take custom amount of records of $json.

Something like this:

foreach($json->take(5) as $js){
...
}

But this thing obviously does not work and returns Call to a member function take() on array.

So how can I use take and skip eloquent functions in a foreach loop in this case (or something equivalent to them).

I would really appreciate if you share any idea or suggestion about this...

Thanks.

T R A C E ツ · Answer

You might need collect() method as the docs.

collect(json_decode(file_get_contents($path), true));

After that you might able to use take() or skip() method.

usergAKD · Answer

You can use array_slice on the JSON array to implement skip and take. For example:

$skip = 10;
$take = 5;
foreach (array_slice($json, $skip, $take) as $js) {
    // ... do what is necessary on the data
}