trying to access an array's values, but can't.

[ballhogjoni]

I have the following code:

$user->attributes()["username"]

 

$user->attributes() is an array of the users attributes. array('username' => 'value')

 

when i run this code: $user->attributes()["username"] i get an error:

Parse error: parse error in ...

 

What am i doing wrong?

[ignace]

$user->attributes['username']

[ballhogjoni]

$user->attributes['username']

 

i tried that and i get Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ActiveRecord\UndefinedPropertyException' with message 'Undefined property: User->attributes in ...

[manohoo]

$user->attributes() is a method (function)

$user->attributes is a property (variable)

 

if $user->attributes is an array then you can display it's contents like this:

print_r($user->attributes);

[ignace]

If it is not php 5.4 then you can't use array dereferencing.  Store it in a variable and acccess it like that.

[ManiacDan]

The problem is that you cannot chain array access in the form of [2] after a function call (which is fixed in a future version of PHP, as noted).

 

The easiest way to do this is to simply make a getAttribute function on that class which would do $obj->getAttribute("username");

[ballhogjoni]

If it is not php 5.4 then you can't use array dereferencing.  Store it in a variable and acccess it like that.

Ok thanks this is what I didn't want to do ... running php 5.3 ... looks like i don't have a choice unless i upgrade.

 

The problem is that you cannot chain array access in the form of [2] after a function call (which is fixed in a future version of PHP, as noted).

 

The easiest way to do this is to simply make a getAttribute function on that class which would do $obj->getAttribute("username");

Ok thanks! I will do this, easiest way to handle it. Don't want to have to keep making variables every time I want to access the array.