Question

I am trying to get the current trends from the twitter api (but that’s sorta irrelevant).

I receive the information as an object. In this situation some of the properties that I need to access, are dates from when the trends were last updated, therefore I can’t hard code the property names.

Here’s an example incase I didn’t explain myself well, which I fear I didn’t 🙁

stdClass Object
(
[2011-03-09 02:45] => Array
    (
        [0] => stdClass Object
            (
                [promoted_content] => 
                [events] => 
                [query] => RIP Mike Starr
                [name] => RIP Mike Starr
            )

        [1] => stdClass Object
            (
                [promoted_content] => 
                [events] => 
                [query] => Mac & Cheese
                [name] => Mac & Cheese
            )

Note: This is not the full object

Answer 1

You can traverse an object’s properties using get_object_vars()

$fooBar = new stdClass();
$fooBar->apple = 'red';
$fooBar->pear  = 'green';

foreach(get_object_vars($fooBar) as $property => $value) {
  echo $property . " = " . $value . "\n";
}

// Output
// apple = red
// pear = green