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stdClass object and foreach loops

Asked 2009-06-04T14:09:06.810
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I am using the following code to get data from a website using Soap.

$client = new SoapClient('http://some.url.here');
class SMSParam {
    public $CellNumber;
    public $AccountKey;
    public $MessageCount;
    public $MessageBody;
    public $Reference;

}
$parameters = new SMSParam;
$parameters -> AccountKey = "$sms_key";
$parameters -> MessageCount = "25";
$Result = $client->GetIncomingMessages($parameters);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($Result);
echo "</pre>";

Here is a sample of the output:

stdClass Object
(
    [GetIncomingMessagesResult] => stdClass Object
        (
            [SMSIncomingMessage] => Array
                (
                    [0] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [OutgoingMessageID] => data
                            [Reference] => data
                            [MessageNumber] => data
                            [PhoneNumber] => data
                            [Message] => data
                            [ReceivedDate] => data
                        )

                    [1] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [OutgoingMessageID] => data
                            [Reference] => data
                            [MessageNumber] => data
                            [PhoneNumber] => data
                            [Message] => data
                            [ReceivedDate] => data
                        )

                    [2] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [OutgoingMessageID] => data
                            [Reference] => data
                            [MessageNumber] => data
                            [PhoneNumber] => data
                            [Message] => data
                            [ReceivedDate] => data
                        )

                )

    
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My take on it is to just always make sure you have an array of messages, even if it's an array of 1. That way you don't duplicate any processing.

$smsMessages = is_array( $result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage )
    ? $result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage
    : array( $result->GetIncomingMessagesResult->SMSIncomingMessage );

foreach ( $smsMessages as $smsMessage )
{
    echo $smsMessage->Reference;
}
answered 2009-06-04T14:22:15.613

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