PHP - Changing an Object for Consistency - php

Question

I have a scenario where an API is returning multiple records inside object containing a numeric array like so;
stdClass Object
(
[Event] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[ID] => 111
[Name] => My First Event
[EventType] => stdClass Object
(
[ID] => 1
[Category] => Music
)
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[ID] => 222
[Name] => My Second Event
[EventType] => stdClass Object
(
[ID] => 2
[Category] => Sport
)
)
)
[Errors] => stdClass Object
(
[Result] => 0
[Message] =>
)
[RecordCount] => 2
)
I'm current using a foreach loop to iterate through the records. This works fine.
foreach($result->Event as $Event)
But there is a problem here I have a scenario where a single results is returned in the object like so;
stdClass Object
(
[Event] => stdClass Object
(
[ID] => 11
[Name] => My Only Event
[EventType] => stdClass Object
(
[ID] => 2
[Category] => Sport
)
)
[Errors] => stdClass Object
(
[Result] => 0
[Message] =>
)
[RecordCount] => 1
)
Notice there is no [0] array index for the single results.
What's the best way to overcome this keeping in mind that I have no control of the data returned by the API?

Answer 1

Check if Event is an array or an object
if( is_object( $result->Event ) )
{
// ...
}
else
{
foreach( // [....]
}
You may process the object or overwrite it with a 1 item array as suggested by Sam
Btw: very bad API design. I would complain....

Answer 2

The best workaround I have found is to add the single Event to an array with a zero index within the result object. This way the result object matches the same structure as a result containing multiple records.
if(!is_array($result->Event)){
$result->Event = array($result->Event);
}