[RESOLVED] Extracting data from an array.

[dmacman1962]

Hi all,

I am trying to intigrate a UPS address validation page into our site and I have it submitting OK, but I need to extract only some of the data for my form and I am grey on the results.

Here is what I get when a do a ...

print_r($response);

upsaddress Object
(
[accessKey] => abc
[userId] => def
[password] => ghi!
[url] => https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/AV
[city] => Hollywood
[state] => CA
[zip] => 16503
[statuscode] => 1
[statusdescription] => Success
[error] =>

• => Array
  (
  [0] => address Object
  (
  [rank] => 1
  [quality] => 0.9169
  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
  [state] => CA
  [zipLow] => 90027
  [zipHigh] => 90028
  )

          [1] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 2
                  [quality] => 0.9169
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => CA
                  [zipLow] => 90038
                  [zipHigh] => 90038
              )
  
          [2] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 3
                  [quality] => 0.9169
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => CA
                  [zipLow] => 90068
                  [zipHigh] => 90068
              )
  
          [3] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 4
                  [quality] => 0.9169
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => CA
                  [zipLow] => 90078
                  [zipHigh] => 90078
              )
  
          [4] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 5
                  [quality] => 0.7400
                  [city] => ERIE
                  [state] => PA
                  [zipLow] => 16501
                  [zipHigh] => 16512
              )
  
          [5] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 6
                  [quality] => 0.7200
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => PA
                  [zipLow] => 19046
                  [zipHigh] => 19046
              )
  
          [6] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 7
                  [quality] => 0.7200
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => MD
                  [zipLow] => 20636
                  [zipHigh] => 20636
              )
  
          [7] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 8
                  [quality] => 0.7200
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => SC
                  [zipLow] => 29449
                  [zipHigh] => 29449
              )
  
          [8] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 9
                  [quality] => 0.7200
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => FL
                  [zipLow] => 33019
                  [zipHigh] => 33029
              )
  
          [9] => address Object
              (
                  [rank] => 10
                  [quality] => 0.7200
                  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
                  [state] => FL
                  [zipLow] => 33081
                  [zipHigh] => 33081
              )
  
      )

  )

I want to extract the " [error] => " and the individual results for [0] thru [9] but I cant seem to.

I did a

echo $response['accessKey'];

And that gave me nothing.

I am not totally 'savy' on multi-dimensional arrays, and doing something like 'explode' with them.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Don

[brandtj]

Because the first-dimension keys are integers, you must reference by them first. Example:

echo $response[0]['accessKey'];

Should you want all of the accessKey's in an array, you might do something like this:

foreach ($response as $k => $v) {
   foreach ($v as $k2 => $v2) {
      $new_r[$k2][$k] = $v2;
   }
}

print_r ($new_r);

What that does is switch the array around, and now all of the accessKey's and other elements will contain an array.

print_r ($new_r['accessKey']);

Hope it helps! 😃

[dmacman1962]

Hi Jared,

Thanks for the help and the explanation.

I made your changes and got mixed results.

The

echo $response[0]['accessKey'];

gave me nothing (no errors either).

The 'foreach' gave me

Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

.

This worked great

print_r ($new_r['accessKey']);.

It gave me a nice list that I can work from...

Array
(
[0] => Array
(

• => address Object
  (
  [rank] => 1
  [quality] => 0.9169
  [city] => HOLLYWOOD
  [state] => CA
  [zipLow] => 90027
  [zipHigh] => 90028
  )

      )

  //etc.....

I am not sure why the first two did not work. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Don

[Weedpacket]

[EDIT: Hah; since [list] is a bbcode tag, it has to be escaped or linebreaking will go a bit wonky. That explains why I thought you were saying that the 0..9 thingies are in the error field 🙂].

Note that this usps thingy isn't an array but an object (a upsaddress object, to be precise), so it's $response->accessKey, and not $response['accessKey'].

Just to reprise:

upsaddress Object
(
[accessKey] => abc
[userId] => def
[password] => ghi!
[url] => https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/AV
[city] => Hollywood
[state] => CA
[zip] => 16503
[statuscode] => 1
[statusdescription] => Success
[error] =>
[list] => Array
	(
	[0] => address Object
	(
	[rank] => 1
	[quality] => 0.9169
	[city] => HOLLYWOOD

Reading down this, "HOLLYWOOD" would be

$response->list[0]->city

, and the error (if there were any) would be in $response->error.

[dmacman1962]

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa,

Weedpacket, 'You da man!'

Is there anything, you don't know???

I did what you suggested and now I can pull out the data and do my address tests and correct the address errors, just like I wanted to.

THANKS!

I will put up a working copy once I get it more 'clean.'

I owe you, again!

Don