stdClass object and foreach loops

Question

I am using the following code to get data from a website using Soap.

$client = new SoapClient(\'http://some.url.here\');
class SMSParam {
    public $CellNu         


        

Answer 1

Iterate over the array?! :-)

foreach ($result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage as $message)
{
    $reference = $message->Reference;
    //...
}

Answer 2

you need to specify your SMSIncomingMessage arrays object key.

$result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage[0]->Reference;

or

foreach ($result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage as $message)
{
$reference = $message[0]->Reference;
//...
}

Answer 3

It is an array, so you can loop over it easily using foreach:

foreach ($result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage as $message) {
    echo $message->Reference;
}

However it is worth noting that PHP's SoapClient by default appears to return arrays as a PHP array only when there is more than one value in the array - if there is only one value you will just get that value (not contained within an array). An easy way around this is to use the option SOAP_SINGLE_ELEMENT_ARRAYS in the SoapClient constructor; this will prevent this behaviour and ensure you always get arrays.

Answer 4

My take on it is to just always make sure you have an array of messages, even if it's an array of 1. That way you don't duplicate any processing.

$smsMessages = is_array( $result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage )
    ? $result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage
    : array( $result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage );

foreach ( $smsMessages as $smsMessage )
{
    echo $smsMessage->Reference;
}

Answer 5

Cast object to convert array

$array = (array) json_decode(['TEST'=>true]);