PHP Count Object stdClass (PCOS)

Hi guys, I want to vent again guys. Let's say I'm developing someone's website and playing around with APIs, so of course I'm familiar with casting JSON data to PHP's stdClass object. I do it with the help of json_decode.

Well, the problem is when I want to count the number of objects in stdClass in this way count($obj), where $obj is a variable that holds the json_decode output. What happened? It turns out that from the count result I only got a value of 1, in fact when I printed the data it was more than 1 object, like this.

[trends] => stdClass Object
    (
        [2009-08-21 11:05] => Array
            (
                [0] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => "Follow Friday"
                        [name] => Follow Friday
                    )

                [1] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => "Inglourious Basterds" OR "Inglorious Basterds"
                        [name] => Inglourious Basterds
                    )

                [2] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => Inglourious
                        [name] => Inglourious
                    )

                [3] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #songsincode
                        [name] => #songsincode
                    )

                [4] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #shoutout
                        [name] => #shoutout
                    )

                [5] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => "District 9"
                        [name] => District 9
                    )

                [6] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #howmanypeople
                        [name] => #howmanypeople
                    )

                [7] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => Ashes OR #ashes
                        [name] => Ashes
                    )

                [8] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #youtubefail
                        [name] => #youtubefail
                    )

                [9] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => TGIF
                        [name] => TGIF
                    )

                [10] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #wish09
                        [name] => #wish09
                    )

                [11] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #watch
                        [name] => #watch
                    )

                [12] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => Avatar
                        [name] => Avatar
                    )

                [13] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => Ramadhan
                        [name] => Ramadhan
                    )

                [14] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => Goodnight
                        [name] => Goodnight
                    )

                [15] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => iPhone
                        [name] => iPhone
                    )

                [16] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => #iranelection
                        [name] => #iranelection
                    )

                [17] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => Apple
                        [name] => Apple
                    )

                [18] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => "Usain Bolt"
                        [name] => Usain Bolt
                    )

                [19] => stdClass Object
                    (
                        [query] => H1N1
                        [name] => H1N1
                    )

            )
     )

So why is this happening? What am I doing wrong?

Solution

The problem is that the calculation I meant was for the index in the array, not the properties in the object. But the method I did above did the opposite, so it's no wonder the output is always 1.

Then I fixed the scenario to be:

1. casting object into array like this (array)$obj
2. calculate the index of the array.

$total = count((array)$obj);

Disclaimer: the above method only works for simple stdClass object cases, and may not work for cases with complex data hierarchies.