Question

$response is a SimpleXML element and an initial var_dump shows it as an array but I can’t loop through it. It turns into an object when I access it specifically.

Any suggestions?

    var_dump($response); //shows KeyResult as array
    if (is_array($response->KeyResult)) { //returns false
        $addressRankings = array();
        foreach ($response->KeyResult as $rating) {
            print_r($rating);

Here’s the var_dump

object(SimpleXMLElement)#8 (1) {
  ["KeyResult"]=>
  array(10) {
    [0]=>
    object(SimpleXMLElement)#7 (5) {

Answer 1

var_dump dumps the SimpleXML object content, but when you call ->KeyResult it has more magic (like __get method), which returns not an array:

Properties ($movies->movie in previous example) are not arrays. They
are iterable and accessible objects.