Get first element in PHP stdObject

Question

I have an object (stored as $videos) that looks like this

object(stdClass)#19 (3) {
  [0]=>
  object(stdClass)#20 (22) {
    [\"id\"]=>
    string(1) \         


        

Answer 1

much easier:

$firstProp = current( (Array)$object );

Answer 2

$videos->{0}->id worked for me.

Since $videos and {0} both are objects, so we have to access id with $videos->{0}->id. The curly braces are required around 0, as omitting the braces will produce a syntax error : unexpected '0', expecting identifier or variable or '{' or '$'.

I'm using PHP 5.4.3.

In my case, neither $videos{0}->id and $videos{0}['id'] worked and shows error :

Cannot use object of type stdClass as array.

Answer 3

Correct:

$videos= (Array)$videos;
$video = $videos[0];

Answer 4

Playing with Php interactive shell, Php 7:

➜  ~ php -a
Interactive shell

php > $v = (object) ["toto" => "hello"];
php > var_dump($v);
object(stdClass)#1 (1) {
  ["toto"]=>
  string(5) "hello"
}
php > echo $v{0};
PHP Warning:  Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in php shell code:1
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in php shell code on line 1

Warning: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in php shell code:1
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in php shell code on line 1
php > echo $v->{0};
PHP Notice:  Undefined property: stdClass::$0 in php shell code on line 1

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$0 in php shell code on line 1
php > echo current($v);
hello

Only current is working with object.

Answer 5

Update 2019

Moving on to the best practices of OOPS, @MrTrick's answer must be marked as correct, although my answer provides a hacked solution its not the best method.

Simply iterate its using {}

Example:

$videos{0}->id

This way your object is not destroyed and you can easily iterate through object.

For PHP 5.6 and below use this

$videos{0}['id']

Answer 6

Both array() and the stdClass objects can be accessed using the current() key() next() prev() reset() end() functions.

So, if your object looks like

object(stdClass)#19 (3) {
  [0]=>
  object(stdClass)#20 (22) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(1) "123"
  etc...

Then you can just do;

$id = reset($obj)->id; //Gets the 'id' attr of the first entry in the object

If you need the key for some reason, you can do;

reset($obj); //Ensure that we're at the first element
$key = key($obj);

Hope that works for you. :-) No errors, even in super-strict mode, on PHP 5.4