How do I access information in this PHP object?

Question

I'm not sure how to write the syntax to access "text" in the object that was returned by the twitter standard search API.

I have tried every possible combination of PHP operators that I can think of e.g. $statuses[0]->"text" etc. but I simply just get errors no matter what I do. The only thing that actually printed something to the screen was print_r($statuses).

I have tried using json_decode() but I'm unsure what to do after that. I'm not even sure if that is the correct usage of the function.

stdClass Object
(
    [statuses] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [created_at] => Wed Jan 09 01:03:14 +0000 2019
                    [id] => 1082804961115885570
                    [id_str] => 1082804961115885570
                    [text] => Happy Birthday @LeslieAmandaa_ !!

That is some of print_r($statuses). I would like to access [text].

$statuses = $connection->get("search/tweets", array("q" => "birthday"));
echo "<pre>";
print_r($statuses);
echo "</pre>";

That is the PHP I used to

Get the object from the Twitter Standard Search API
Print it to my webpage (what you see in the screenshot)

I expect to be able to echo out just the [text] part but nothing I have tried seems to do that for me (I have looked through other threads and can't find anything that works for my particular object). I would also like to use this object with JavaScript (also jQuery) if anyone has any helpful information on how to pass that data to a JS file.

Ok so I got it to display errors on the page and the error that is likely causing this is:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in 
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\index.php:22 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\index.php on line 22

Wouldn't you need to access the outer object before the array? Like, if you store the results in an $obj var, you could use $obj->statuses[0]->text right? — Justin Schwimmer, Jan 09 '19 at 01:41
It should be accessible by $statuses->statuses[0]->text. The value returned by the $connection->get() is an response object. — Cat, Jan 09 '19 at 01:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '19 at 01:50

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Based on what I'm seeing, I would guess:

$result = $connection->get("search/tweets", array("q" => "birthday"));
print_r($result->statuses[0]->text);

Would be what you're looking for. Seems like the naming of the variable matching the first value in the result is what's leading to the confusion.

As a side note, be careful when referencing values by their index, in the event those values don't exist. Check for them first, or iterate the array.

answered Jan 09 '19 at 01:50

syntaqx

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Thank you! Is there a way of using this object in JavaScript? – Anonymous Kraken Jan 09 '19 at 02:01
You'll need to turn the object into JSON, and then provide it to a JavaScript runtime (such as the browser) - Here's an example of creating your object FROM JSON (which is what the SDK you're using is doing, and then turning it back into JSON: https://www.tehplayground.com/hX2faU1kWA3FMHRK – syntaqx Jan 09 '19 at 02:12

How do I access information in this PHP object?

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