Laravel and results of stored MySQL Procedures

Question

I'm dealing with some really old code I'm trying to get running on Laravel. The database is complicated and full of unnecessarily long stored procedures that I don't have the budget to rewrite.

For the most part, these work well, as I can access singular results like $myID = $result[0]->id

I'm hoping this is something more than a gap in my PHP knowledge...

$result = DB::select(DB::raw("Call MyOldStoredProcedure()"));
print_r($result);

This gives me:

Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [MIN(user_responses.sectionid)] => 2 ) )

Which I unsurprisingly can't access as

$number = $result[0]["MIN(user_responses.sectionid)"]; //or...
$number = $result[0]->...

What can I do to retrieve this singular result from this weird associative array/object? I'm about to give up and parse the array string, but I know there's a better way.

Answer 1

The easiest option is to use curly braces in order to be able to quote the special characters:

$number = $result[0]->{'MIN(user_responses.sectionid)'};

Another option is to set a variable to the name of the property, and then access the property using the variable:

$property = 'MIN(user_responses.sectionid)';
$number = $result[0]->$property;

Additionally, you could also convert the object to an array, and access the property like you originally attempted.

$array = (array)$result[0];
$number = $array['MIN(user_responses.sectionid)'];

// or, if you're on PHP 7+
$number = ((array)$result[0])['MIN(user_responses.sectionid)'];