Thread: Returning a Formula result from in a SOQL SELECT statement

Hello all,

I am new to this forum and relatively new to SalesForce. I have been working on some concepts for a SalesForce application/integration with PHP. I started out by creating several new objects in SalesForce. Following that, I started on the PHP side to integrate with it. One of these objects has a Formula field that uses other fields from the object to generate a descriptive label. However, when I query the object (and the Formula field), the formula field is not returned.

SELECT Id, OwnerId, Name, CreatedDate, CreatedById, FormulaField__c FROM MyObject__c

What I get back:
[Id] => a0370000004wjwXAAQ
[CreatedById] => 00570000001441kAAA
[CreatedDate] => 2008-06-23T21:32:02.000Z
[Name] => Name
[OwnerId] => 00570000001441kAAA

Does anyone know how to get the result of the formula back? I know that by querying the sObject for the object, I can see the actual formula used for the field, but I cannot easily parse this formula and get a result from it...

Thanks,
-Andrew