Question

I feel silly for asking, but how do I get plan value in this object? _object is protected, so PHP telling me I cannot. I am using the PHP library for Recurly.

object(Recurly_SubscriptionList)#47 (7) {
  ["_etag":"Recurly_Pager":private]=> NULL
  ["_position":"Recurly_Pager":private]=>int(0)
  ["_count":"Recurly_Pager":private]=>NULL
  ["_objects":protected]=> array(1) {
    [0]=> object(Recurly_Subscription)#50 (6) {
      ["_values":protected]=> array(11) {
        ["subscription_add_ons"]=> array(0) {}
        ["account"]=> object(Recurly_Stub)#54 (4) {
          ["objectType"]=> string(7) "account"
          ["_href":protected]=> string(37) "https://api.recurly.com/v2/accounts/1"
          ["_client":protected]=>NULL
          ["_links":protected]=>array(0) {}
        }
        ["plan"]=> hello

Answer 1

So since I come from a Java background, I was expecting a getVar() function. It turns out that PHP’s Magic Method __get() allows me to just access it normally IF you overload your __get() properly.

So in specific to this case, for whoever that may stumble on to this, if you are using the Recurly PHP Library, you have to use foreach to get to the objects and then just access plan normally.

For example,
Let’s say the object above was the value of the variable $subscriptions:

foreach($subscriptions as $subscription) {
      echo $subscription->plan;
}