I have an array from Amazon's API, which I'm iterating. When I try to echo or print() one of the values I get an "Array to string conversion" error.
The value in question is a string, which I've confirmed with var_dump().
Is this a bug in PHP v.5.5.8(-1~dotdeb.1) or am I going crazy?
This is the line of code that causes the hangup (using Blade, but this is the produced PHP):
<td><a href='http://<?php echo $instance['PublicDnsName']; ?>' target='_blank'><?php echo $instance['PublicDnsName']; ?></a></td>
I'm on Ubuntu Server via Vagrant, under Windows 7 as host OS.
EDIT: If I print_r() the value, it works fine, but it appends a "1" to the output.
EDIT2: It seems to be an issue with Blade, perhaps, as I can echo the value normally within my controller class instead of in the view/template. I'm using Laravel 4 and its Blade templating engine.
EDIT3:
Here is the relevant portion of my Blade template:
<td><a href='{{ $instance['PublicDnsName'] }}' target='_blank'>{{ $instance['PublicDnsName'] }}</a></td>
This is inside a nested foreach loop.
The big data array comes from Amazon's EC2, thusly:
$data = $this->ec2->DescribeInstances()->getAll();
As mentioned earlier, if I print this out within the controller, it will print the string correctly without errors.
I also tried it with normal PHP tags, without the Blade specific syntax, but it yields the same result.
echo '<pre>'; print_r($instance['PublicDnsName']); echo '</pre>';...prints:ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.comecho '<pre>'; var_dump($instance['PublicDnsName']); echo '</pre>';...prints:string(50) "ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com"– ThePaavero Jan 28 at 11:38