Posted by John Smith on 10/21/22 11:22

This is with simplexml_load_file(). Using an empty()
check instead of is_array() does the trick (though -
note to php hackers - I think is_array() SHOULD work).

John


--- Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:

> John Smith wrote:
> > I'm trying to avoid error messages while iterating
> > over DOM properties. e.g.
>
>
> >
> > if(is_array($dom->stuff->props)) {
>
> maybe you can get roudn the problem by saying?:
>
> if($dom->stuff->props) {
>
> or?:
>
> if(!empty($dom->stuff->props)) {
>
> > foreach($dom->stuff->props as $prop) {
> > ...
> > }
> > }
> >
> > It works without the is_array() check, but not
> with
>
> my guess is you'll find that $dom->stuff->props is
> an object
> which overloads the array accessor stuff...
> basically it's implementing Iterator (or some other
> SPL Interface)
>
> hard to tell though because you don't mention which
> DOM
> related extension you are using.
>
> > it. I've done var_dumps and $dom->stuff->props is
> > indeed an array. I've also tried using an
> intermediate
> > variable ($stuff=$dom->stuff) then checking that,
> but
> > that doesn't work either).
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
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