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alrik11es/object-dot-notation
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Object dot notation for PHP with key existence validation

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The idea behind this library is to allow the access through
`config.port` dot notation to object data.

```

### Why?

[](#why)

My main problem was when accessing API data.

```
{
    "hits":{
        "products": [
            {
                "name": "Shoe"
            }
        ]
    }
}
```

Imagine this is the result from an API. Usually to be sure that the data is what I want I'm gonna need to do:

```