PHP: Count a stdClass object
I have a stdClass object created from json_decode that won't return the right number when I run the count($obj) function. The object has 30 properties, but the return on the count() function is say 1.
Any ideas?
Below is an example of one of the objects. (I'm requesting the daily trend information from Twitter). If this object had more than one property, the count($obj) would equal 1.
[trends] => stdClass Object
(
[2009-08-21 11:05] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => "Follow Friday"
[name] => Follow Friday
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => "Inglourious Basterds" OR "Inglorious Basterds"
[name] => Inglourious Basterds
)
[2] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => Inglourious
[name] => Inglourious
)
[3] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #songsincode
[name] => #songsincode
)
[4] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #shoutout
[name] => #shoutout
)
[5] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => "District 9"
[name] => District 9
)
[6] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #howmanypeople
[name] => #howmanypeople
)
[7] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => Ashes OR #ashes
[name] => Ashes
)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #youtubefail
[name] => #youtubefail
)
[9] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => TGIF
[name] => TGIF
)
[10] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #wish09
[name] => #wish09
)
[11] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #watch
[name] => #watch
)
[12] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => Avatar
[name] => Avatar
)
[13] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => Ramadhan
[name] => Ramadhan
)
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => Goodnight
[name] => Goodnight
)
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => iPhone
[name] => iPhone
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => #iranelection
[name] => #iranelection
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => Apple
[name] => Apple
)
[18] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => "Usain Bolt"
[name] => Usain Bolt
)
[19] => stdClass Object
(
[query] => H1N1
[name] => H1N1
)
)
)
Answer
The problem is that count is intended to count the indexes in an array, not the properties on an object, (unless it's a custom object that implements the Countable interface). Try casting the object, like below, as an array and seeing if that helps.
$total = count((array)$obj);
Simply casting an object as an array won't always work but being a simple stdClass object it should get the job done here.