Although, I have successfully implemented Google Keyword Planner API to generate Keyword Ideas in PHP with the link below.

https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/keyword-planning/generate-keyword-ideas

Does anyone know the fastest way to sort the result by AvgMonthlySearches?

// Iterate over the results and print its detail. foreach ($response->iterateAllElements() as $result) {     /** @var GenerateKeywordIdeaResult $result */     // Note that the competition printed below is enum value.     // For example, a value of 2 will be returned when the competition is 'LOW'.     // A mapping of enum names to values can be found at KeywordPlanCompetitionLevel.php.     printf(         "Keyword idea text '%s' has %d average monthly searches and competition as %d.%s",         $result->getText(),         is_null($result->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()) ?             0 : $result->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()->getAvgMonthlySearches(),         is_null($result->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()) ?             0 : $result->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()->getCompetition(),         PHP_EOL     ); }

Thanks

Tag:google-ads-api, php

4 comments.

  1. Paulo Amaral

    You could implement a function that can compare two instances of your object and use usort:

    function cmp($a, $b){ return $a->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()->getAvgMonthlySearches() - $b->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()->getAvgMonthlySearches(); } $list = iterator_to_array($response->->iterateAllElements()); usort($list, "cmp"); // $list will be your sorted array to work with from here onwards ...

    See more:

    Sort array of objects by object fields https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iterator-to-array.php
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    1. webmastx

      Thanks for your prompt reply. I've placed you snipped before iteration like this: function cmp($a, $b) { return $a->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()->getAvgMonthlySearches() - $b->getKeywordIdeaMetrics()->getAvgMonthlySearches(); } usort($response, "cmp"); foreach ($response->iterateAllElements() as $result) { .... and I got a warning saying: Warning: usort() expects parameter 1 to be array, object given in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs As I expected the response variable from API was an array isn't it? Please help and thank you.

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    2. El_Vanja

      @webmastx You should verify what the response is by dumping the variable. Then you'll see instance of which class it is and you can find documentation for it.

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    3. Paulo Amaral

      You are dealing with an iterator and will need to convert to an array with iterator_to_array to be able to use usort. I updated the code of the answer if you want to try it. Be advised that this won't give you the best performance though.

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