SOAP proplem -- arrays are returned as objects!!

[MikeBarber]

I have this function called via SOAP:

function getList($a, $b) {

    ...                

while ($dbArray) {
    $myArray[] = $dbArray;

    ...

}

    return $myArray;
}

So what I expect to have returned is an array (myArray) which contains arrays (dbArray).

When the client makes the call, what it gets back is an array of objects! What is going on? I'm new to SOAP, so I may have missed something, but as far as I can tell it should be working!

[swr]

When it goes through SOAP it all ends up as an XML document; the information about whether it was an associative array or an object gets lost.

You can turn it back into an array easily enough. If you have a single object $o, you can turn it into an array like this:

$o = (array)$o;