PHP Print keys from an object?

Question

I have an object BIRD and then there is [0] through [10] and each number has a subheading like "bug" or "beetle" or "gnat" and a value for each of those.

I want to print

BIRD 
    [0]
       bug = > value

I can't find out how to do this anywhere - there is talk of PUBLIC and PRIVATE and CLASS and that's where I fall off

Read this ... manual: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php — OZ_, Apr 27 '11 at 12:19

score 92 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 11 '22 at 01:58

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You could easily do it by type casting the object:

$keys = array_keys((array)$BIRD);

edited Jan 11 '22 at 01:58

Soviut

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answered Jan 18 '13 at 17:14

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This ends up giving me `ArrayArray to string conversion` as the result.. – Connor Leech May 07 '19 at 18:54

score 55 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 17 '14 at 18:41

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Similar to brenjt's response, this uses PHP's get_object_vars instead of type casting the object.

$array = get_object_vars($object);
$properties = array_keys($array);

answered Mar 17 '14 at 18:41

nick

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Which is the more efficient approach? – John Rix Sep 22 '17 at 11:04
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After reading https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2512212/get-object-vars-vs-cast-to-array get_object_vars is safer to use. – Clemens Tolboom May 20 '19 at 08:13

score 13 · Answer 3 · answered May 20 '19 at 12:09

If the 'object' is actually an associative array rather than a true object then array_keys() will give you what you need without warnings or errors.

On the other hand, if your object is a true object, then you will get a warning if you try use array_keys() directly.

You can extract the key-value pairs from an object as an associative array with get_object_vars(), you can then get the keys from this with array_keys():

$keysFromObject = array_keys(get_object_vars($anObject));

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '20 at 11:59

Looks like array_keys might have stopped working on objects but, amazingly, the foreach construct works, at least on a php stdClass object.

$object = new stdClass();
$object->a = 20;
$object->b = "hello";
$keys = array_keys($object);
// array_keys returns null. PHP Version 7.3.3 windows
foreach($object as $key=>$value)
{
     // but this works
     echo("key:" . $key . " value:" . $value . "\n");
}

PHP Print keys from an object?

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