README

Function to retrieve values from objects without painfully checking if the value isset. Inspired by and ported from the great get-in library for arrays from Igor Wiedler.

For example, to access a nested property ->foo->bar->baz, you must do something like this:

$baz = (isset($data->foo->bar->baz)) ? $data->foo->bar->baz : null;

Enough already! get-from provides a better way:

$baz = florianec\get_from($data, ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']);

get_from is specially handy when dealing with deeply nested objects like those generated by SimpleXML.

Installation

Through composer:

$ composer require florianeckerstorfer/get-from:~1.0

Usage

get_in

Retrieve value from a nested structure using a list of keys:

$data = new \stdClass();
$data->foo = new \stdClass();
$data->foo->bar = new \stdClass();
$data->foo->bar->baz = 'oof';

$name = florianec\get_from($data, ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']);
//= 'oof'

Non existent keys return null:

$data = new \stdClass();
$data->foo = 'bar';

$baz = florianec\get_from($data, ['baz']);
//= null

You can provide a default value that will be used instead of null:

$data = new \stdClass();
$data->foo = 'bar';

$baz = florianec\get_from($data, ['baz'], 'qux');
//= 'qux'

Changelog

Version 1.0 (9 March 2014)

• Initial release

Inspiration

This library is a complete ripoff of Igor Wiedler's get-in library. Even this README file is largely inspired by Igors work. Scandalous.

I created this library/function when I wanted to clean up the code dealing with XML from an external web service and I realised that get-in only works for arrays and not for objects.

Author

• Florian Eckerstorfer (Twitter, App.net)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Florian eckerstorfer

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