<?php
$json = <<< JSON
{
"John": {
"status":"Wait"
},
"Jennifer": {
"status":"Active"
},
"James": {
"status":"Active",
"age":56,
"count":10,
"progress":0.0029857,
"bad":0
}
}
JSON;
$jsonIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveArrayIterator(json_decode($json, TRUE)),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
foreach ($jsonIterator as $key => $val) {
if(is_array($val)) {
echo "$key:\n";
} else {
echo "$key => $val\n";
}
}