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    copied!<p>I was using this successfully, so I thought:</p> <pre><code>foreach ($trip-&gt;STOPS-&gt;STOP as $key=&gt;$value) { </code></pre> <p>Most of the time the data looks like this:</p> <pre><code> ["STOPS"]=&gt; object(stdClass)#247 (1) { ["STOP"]=&gt; array(4) { [0]=&gt; object(stdClass)#248 (2) { ["NAME"]=&gt; string(11) "Short Hills" ["TIME"]=&gt; string(20) "7/30/2013 6:38:24 AM" } [1]=&gt; object(stdClass)#249 (2) { ["NAME"]=&gt; string(8) "Millburn" ["TIME"]=&gt; string(20) "7/30/2013 6:41:24 AM" } [2]=&gt; object(stdClass)#250 (2) { ["NAME"]=&gt; string(19) "Newark Broad Street" ["TIME"]=&gt; string(20) "7/30/2013 6:53:00 AM" } [3]=&gt; object(stdClass)#251 (2) { ["NAME"]=&gt; string(21) "New York Penn Station" ["TIME"]=&gt; string(20) "7/30/2013 7:13:00 AM" } } } } </code></pre> <p>However the above PHP code caused a problem when STOP didn't contain an array of elements, when it looked like this:</p> <pre><code> ["STOPS"]=&gt; object(stdClass)#286 (1) { ["STOP"]=&gt; object(stdClass)#287 (2) { ["NAME"]=&gt; string(21) "New York Penn Station" ["TIME"]=&gt; string(20) "7/30/2013 8:13:00 AM" } } } </code></pre> <p>So as you might guess, the instead of it making $key=>$value to be the array element and the array of the NAME/TIME, it was making $key to be NAME or TIME, which is wrong of course.</p> <p>How can I use this foreach method properly without having to check to see if foreach $trip->STOPS->STOP contains an array or more than one element?</p> <p>The source of this data is from a SOAP request which is returned as JSON.</p> <p>Or is my approach here totally wrong? If so, please kindly enlighten me? Thanks!</p>
 

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