Cannot access PHP Object as Array

Question

I am facing a strange problem. It may just be a silly mistake, and I am just missing some basics.

I'm running php 5.6.1 on MAMP.

I have a simple array which I get from a mysql query. Using a foreach loop, I can print_r() each value, which gives me: stdClass Object ( [srno] => 6 [link] => this-is-link )

Now I can echo $obj->srno , and that prints fine. But I can't use echo $obj['srno'] which I was previously using, on an older version of PHP, but- It shows nothing.

Any help really appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

If you have a stdClass object and need to address it as an array, you can cast it to array quite easily:

$someObj = new stdClass();
$someObj->foo = "bar";

$someArray = (array)$someObj; // Cast the object to an array

echo $someArray['foo']; // Will give you "bar"

Working example: http://3v4l.org/nni1Y

Of course as comments already pointed out, you may want to look at retrieving your mysql results as an array in the first place.

Answer 2

As you said your results return as an object so you can use it by using $obj->your_field_name to display field value. But your can not use by $obj['field_name'];