PHP, Looping through mulitple arrays - some arrays only have 1 result

Question

I am working with the Zillow API to return reviews for a list of Agents. I have a foreach loop that then pulls the list of reviews for each agent. The list is returned as JSON. I then run a foreach loop on the JSON results to display the reviews individually. Everything works great except, a specific agent only has 1 review and it is throwing a foreach error.

Here is a very simple example return:

If an agent has multiple reviews:

array(
    [0] => Array (
        [reviewer] => name,
        [reviewerLink] => link
    ),
    [1] => Array (
        [reviewer] => name,
        [reviewerLink => link
    )
)

If an agent only has one review:

array([reviewer] => name [reviewerLink] => link)

I have tried using count(), but on an array with only 1 review, it counts the total keys since there is no index.

I need a simple way to differentiate the arrays so I don't use a foreach loop on the agents with only 1 review.

Is there a way to force the array to have an index? Or another way to differentiate the arrays?

Answer 1

If you have only one review, the key reviewer exists. So you can check it with the function array_key_exists if you have only one or more.

Try this code example:

if (array_key_exists('reviewer', $array)) {
  // only one review
} else {
  // more reviews
  // do the foreach
}