fetching data from JSON string using php * syntax [duplicate] - php

Question

I'm using a PHP class someone wrote to interface with the BaseCamp API.
The particular call I'm doing is to retrieve the items in a todo list, which works fine.
My problem is, I'm not sure how to access just the todo-items property of the object that is returned. Here's the var_dump of the returned object:
object(stdClass)[6]
public 'completed-count' => string '0' (length=1)
public 'description' => string 'Description String' (length=89)
public 'id' => string '12345' (length=7)
public 'milestone-id' => string '' (length=0)
public 'name' => string 'Error Reports' (length=13)
public 'position' => string '1' (length=1)
public 'private' => string 'false' (length=5)
public 'project-id' => string '58904' (length=7)
public 'tracked' => string 'false' (length=5)
public 'uncompleted-count' => string '1' (length=1)
public 'todo-items' =>
object(stdClass)[3]
public 'todo-item' =>
object(stdClass)[5]
public 'completed' => string 'false' (length=5)
public 'content' => string 'content string here' (length=133)
public 'created-on' => string '2009-04-16T20:33:31Z' (length=20)
public 'creator-id' => string '23423' (length=7)
public 'id' => string '234' (length=8)
public 'position' => string '1' (length=1)
public 'responsible-party-id' => string '2844499' (length=7)
public 'responsible-party-type' => string 'Person' (length=6)
public 'todo-list-id' => string '234234' (length=7)
public 'complete' => string 'false' (length=5)
How can I access the todo-items portion of this object?

Answer 1

<?php
$x = new StdClass();
$x->{'todo-list'} = 'fred';
var_dump($x);
So, $object->{'todo-list'} is the sub-object. If you can set it like that, then you can also read it the same way:
echo $x->{'todo-list'};
Another possibility:
$todolist = 'todo-list';
echo $x->$todolist;
If you wanted to convert it to an array, which can be a little more easily (ie the obvious $ret['todo-list'] accessing), this code is taken almost verbatim from Zend_Config and will convert for you.
public function toArray()
{
$array = array();
foreach ($this->_data as $key => $value) {
if ($value instanceof StdClass) {
$array[$key] = $value->toArray();
} else {
$array[$key] = $value;
}
}
return $array;
}

Answer 2

Try this simplest way!
$obj = $myobject->{'mydash-value'};
$objToArray = array($obj);