How to access a property of an object (stdClass Object) member/element of an array? [duplicate]

Question

Doing print_r() on my array I get the following:

Array (      [0] =>          stdClass Object          (              [id] => 25              [time] => 2014-01-16 16:35:17              [fname] => 4              [text] => 5              [url] => 6          )  ) 

How can I access a specific value in the array? The following code does not work because of the stdClass Object

echo $array['id']; 

Answer 1

To access an array member you use $array['KEY'];

To access an object member you use $obj->KEY;

To access an object member inside an array of objects:
$array[0] // Get the first object in the array
$array[0]->KEY // then access its key

You may also loop over an array of objects like so:

foreach ($arrayOfObjs as $key => $object) {     echo $object->object_property; } 

Think of an array as a collection of things. It's a bag where you can store your stuff and give them a unique id (key) and access them (or take the stuff out of the bag) using that key. I want to keep things simple here, but this bag can contain other bags too :)

Update (this might help someone understand better):

An array contains 'key' and 'value' pairs. Providing a key for an array member is optional and in this case it is automatically assigned a numeric key which starts with 0 and keeps on incrementing by 1 for each additional member. We can retrieve a 'value' from the array by it's 'key'.

So we can define an array in the following ways (with respect to keys):

First method:

$colorPallete = ['red', 'blue', 'green']; 

The above array will be assigned numeric keys automatically. So the key assigned to red will be 0, for blue 1 and so on.

Getting values from the above array:

$colorPallete[0]; // will output 'red' $colorPallete[1]; // will output 'blue' $colorPallete[2]; // will output 'green' 

Second method:

$colorPallete = ['love' => 'red', 'trust' => 'blue', 'envy' => 'green']; // we expliicitely define the keys ourself. 

Getting values from the above array:

$colorPallete['love']; // will output 'red' $colorPallete['trust']; // will output 'blue' $colorPallete['envy']; // will output 'green'