Printing an Associative Array from an Array Object in PHP? - php

Question

I have an Array Object which I would like to print as an Associative Array
<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/HarvestAPI.php');
/* Register Auto Loader */
spl_autoload_register(array('HarvestAPI', 'autoload'));
$api = new HarvestAPI();
$api->setUser( $user );
$api->setPassword( $password );
$api->setAccount( $account );
$api->setRetryMode( HarvestAPI::RETRY );
$api->setSSL(true);
$result = $api->getProjects(); ?>
It should print something like this.
Array ( [] => Harvest_Project Object (
[_root:protected] => project
[_tasks:protected] => Array ( )
[_convert:protected] => 1
[_values:protected] => Array (
[id] => \
[client-id] => -
[name] => Internal
[code] =>
[active] => false
[billable] => true
[bill-by] => none
[hourly-rate]=>-
How can I achieve this?
Update
I tried doing a varexport. But it gives something like this
Harvest_Result::__set_state(array( '_code' => 200, '_data' => array ( 5443367 => Harvest_Project::__set_state(array( '_root' => 'project', '_tasks' => array ( ), '_convert' => true, '_values' => array ( 'id' => '564367', 'client-id' => '2427552', 'name' => 'Internal', 'code' => '', 'active' => 'false', 'billable' => 'tr
This is not what I am looking for. The object should clearly list the fields it has.

Answer 1

If there's a need to get visibility types as well in the string representation of the object's properties, it can be solved quite simply with ReflectionClass:
$arrayObj = new Harvest_Project();
$reflection = new \ReflectionClass($arrayObj);
$objStr = '';
$properties = $reflection ->getProperties();
foreach ($properties as $property)
{
if ($property->isPublic()) $propType = 'public';
elseif ($property->isPrivate()) $propType = 'private';
elseif ($property->isProtected()) $propType = 'protected';
else $propType = 'static';
$property->setAccessible(true);
$objStr .= "\n[{$property->getName()} : $propType] => " . var_export($property->getValue($arrayObj), true) .';';
}
var_dump($objStr);
The output looks like this:
[_foobar : private] => 42;
[_values: protected] => array (
0 => 'foo',
1 =>
array (
0 => 'bar',
1 => 'baz',
),
);
Warning getProperties might not get inherited properties depending on the PHP version; in this case see examples of how to recursively get them all here.