Unserialize

[shaunie]

Hi,

 

I am trying to get the values of field1 and field20 from the following unserialized output:

stdClass::__set_state(array(

  'id' => 'xxx',

  'products' => 

  stdClass::__set_state(array(

    'product' => 

    stdClass::__set_state(array(              

      'field1' => '123',

      'field2' => '',

      'field3' => 

      stdClass::__set_state(array(

      )),      

      #various other fields        

      'field20' => '456',    

    )),

  )),

))

 

I have tried this code but it doesn't seem to be working, can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here please?

 

$result = unserialize($api->getResponseSerialized());                                

foreach ($result->products->product as $product) {

  $product->field1; //doesnt work!!!                                      

}

 

[Ch0cu3r]

What api are you using as the serialized array structure you posted does not seem to be in php format.

 

What does this return

printf('<pre>%s</pre>', print_r($result, true));

[shaunie]

My apologies, 

 

I used this to get the contents of $result var:

file_put_contents( '/vardump.txt' , var_export($result, true) , FILE_APPEND );

[Ch0cu3r]

Never used var_export. Used to the output from print_r  

 

try using

foreach ($result->products->product as $field => $value) {
  echo $field . ' = ' . $value . '<br />';
}

If you want to get each fields value manually you'd use

$product = $result->products->product;

echo $product->field1;
//... etc ...
echo $product->field20;

Edited December 15, 2013 by Ch0cu3r

[shaunie]

Thank you for your reply, 

 

the problem seems to be the after after field3

foreach ($result->products->product as $field => $value ) {
  file_put_contents( '/vardump.txt' , $field . ' = ' . $value , FILE_APPEND );
}

produces:

field1 = 123
field2 = 
field3 = 

but I need field20 value...

 

So I get the error

Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in ...

[Ch0cu3r]

field3 contains an empty object, which you're trying to convert to a string. PHP cannot convert an object to a string unless you define a __toString method, but that is out of your control as the api is defining the serialized object.

 

If all need is field1 and field20 value then don't use a loop just do

$product = $result->products->product;

echo $product->field1;
echo $product->field20;

If you want to write these values to your var_dump.txt file then use

$product = $result->products->product;
$txt = "field1 = {$product->field1}
field20 = {$product->field20}";

file_put_contents( '/vardump.txt' , $txt, FILE_APPEND );

Edited December 15, 2013 by Ch0cu3r

[shaunie]

Thank you, I need to loop through though as there may be more than one product...

[scootstah]

Try this:

 

$result = unserialize($api->getResponseSerialized());                                
foreach ($result->products as $product) {
  edit $product->field1;                          
}

Edited December 16, 2013 by scootstah