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three3
three3

Reputation: 2846

Parse API Result That Returns an Array and String

I have some data being returned from an API that is in the following format:

string(15) "[email protected]"
bool(true)
string(7) "generic"
array(5) {
  ["server"]=>
  string(19) "imap.mail.yahoo.com"
  ["username"]=>
  string(15) "[email protected]"
  ["port"]=>
  int(993)
  ["use_ssl"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["oauth"]=>
  bool(false)
}
array(0) {
}

When I am trying to parse this with a foreach loop, it is unsuccessful. I am assuming this is due to the string(15), bool(true), and string(7) pieces of data located above the actual array.

Here is my foreach loop:

$results = array();
foreach ($Request->getResults() as $imapSettings) {
    $results['server'] = $imapSettings['server'];
    $results['username'] = $imapSettings['username'];
    $results['port'] = $imapSettings['port'];
    $results['use_ssl'] = $imapSettings['use_ssl'];
    $results['oauth'] = $imapSettings['oauth'];
}

When I run the code above, I get the following error: Warning: Illegal string offset 'server' in. And I believe this error is usually a sign that something is not an array.

So my question is how do I go about parsing this piece of data?

UPDATE:

Here is was var_dump($Request->getResults()); returns:

array(5) {
  ["email"]=>
  string(15) "[email protected]"
  ["found"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["type"]=>
  string(7) "generic"
  ["imap"]=>
  array(5) {
    ["server"]=>
    string(19) "imap.mail.yahoo.com"
    ["username"]=>
    string(15) "[email protected]"
    ["port"]=>
    int(993)
    ["use_ssl"]=>
    bool(true)
    ["oauth"]=>
    bool(false)
  }
  ["documentation"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (2)

jd182
jd182

Reputation: 3260

I think this is what you are trying to do:

$response = $Request->getResults();

$results['server']   = $response['imap']['server'];
$results['username'] = $response['imap']['username'];
$results['port']     = $response['imap']['port'];
$results['use_ssl']  = $response['imap']['use_ssl'];
$results['oauth']    = $response['imap']['oauth'];

You don't need to loop through the result - you can just pull out the information you need from the 'imap' array contained in the result.

Also you can do this more succinctly like this which will yield the same results:

$results = $response['imap'];

Upvotes: 1

Halayem Anis
Halayem Anis

Reputation: 7785

foreach is only applicable for array, so you should escape the other types :

$results = array();
foreach ($Request->getResults() as $imapSettings) {
    if (!is_array($imapSettings)) {
        // you can do other stuff for other type
        continue;
    }
    $results['server'] = $imapSettings['server'];
    $results['username'] = $imapSettings['username'];
    $results['port'] = $imapSettings['port'];
    $results['use_ssl'] = $imapSettings['use_ssl'];
    $results['oauth'] = $imapSettings['oauth'];
}

Upvotes: 0

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