How can I access an object property named as a variable in php?

Question

A Google APIs encoded in JSON returned an object such as this

[updated] => stdClass Object
(
 [$t] => 2010-08-18T19:17:42.026Z
)

Anyone

Answer 1

I'm using php7 and the following works fine for me:

class User {
    public $name = 'john';
}
$u = new User();

$attr = 'name';
print $u->$attr;

Answer 2

Have you tried:

$t = '$t'; // Single quotes are important.
$object->$t;

Answer 3

Since the name of your property is the string '$t', you can access it like this:

echo $object->{'$t'};

Alternatively, you can put the name of the property in a variable and use it like this:

$property_name = '$t';
echo $object->$property_name;

You can see both of these in action on repl.it: https://repl.it/@jrunning/SpiritedTroubledWorkspace

Answer 4

Correct answer (also for PHP7) is:

$obj->{$field}

Answer 5

this works on php 5 and 7

$props=get_object_vars($object);
echo $props[$t];