how to check if object property or variable

[jansky]

Hi,
im parsing data coming from json

so the output is something like

rray
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [shipping_raw] => 7
            [billing_address] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [state] => abc
                    [phone] => 
                    [first_name] => def
                    [last_name] => ghi
                    [postal_code] => 3333
                    [city] => lars
                    [street1] => xxxxx
                    [street2] => 
                    [country] => US
                    [email] => [e-mail]
                )

 [Shipping_address] = stdClass object
   (
                [state] => abc
                [phone] => 
                [first_name] => def
                [last_name] => ghi
                [postal_code] => 3333
                [city] => lars
                [street1] => xxxxx
                [street2] => 
                [country] => US
                [email] => [e-mail]
            )
  [total]=$5
 [sub_total] = $5

}

i have script that parse the data. now the question is this how will i know if data being parse is shipping_address

the code is something like this

$result = json_decode($thejason);
$header= array('shipping_raw','shipping_address','total','subtotal'); // this is the property method that we need to display 

foreach($result as $k)
{
  foreach($header as $h)
 {
     if  ((!s_object($k->$h))  // let us evaluate if the properties is object or not  

    {   echo $k->$h // display 
    }
    else
   {
       // how would i know if the object is now pointing to "Shipping_address" which is object 
   }

 }
}

[Weedpacket]

jansky wrote:

// how would i know if the object is now pointing to "Shipping_address" which is object

Depends on what you mean by "the object is now pointing to"; but $k->$h will refer to the "shipping_address" property of the object in $k when $h=="shipping_address".

[NogDog]

If you don't have a "need to know" what the source of the JSON considered each structure to be, you can set the optional 2nd param of json_decode() to true and make everything into arrays.