How to access stdclass object after a specific key value pair?

Question

I have a stdclass object as shown below:

stdClass Object
(     
    [text] => Parent
    [values] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [id] => /m/0c02911
                    [text] => Laurence W. Lane Jr.
                    [url] => http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0c02911
                )

        )

)

I iterate over multiple such objects, some of which have

stdClass Object
(
    [text] => Named after
    [values] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [id] => /m/0c02911
                    [text] => Stanford
                    [url] => SomeURL
                )

        )

)

I was wondering how I would access the "values" object if it comes after a "text" that has "Parent" as its value?

Answer 1

there are serveral ways to turn it to array:

First Solution:

$value = get_object_vars($object);

Second Solution:

$value = (array) $object;

Third Solution

$value = json_decode(json_encode($object), true);

to get value of converted array

echo $value['values']['0']['id'];

The alternate way to access objects var without convert the object, try

$object->values->{'0'}->id