Getting wrong/different AdGroupIds when running basic operation "get ad groups"

[Garik Tate]

Hey guys,

I'm using the basic operation "get ad groups" in php (found here: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/samples/php/basic-operations#get-ad-groups).
When I run it however, it's giving me different ad group ID's then what I'm seeing in my reports, and my UI.

For instance when I ran it on a test campaign it gave me the result 

"Ad group with ID -870883614 and name 'Ad Group #1' was found. Number of results found: 1"

But the actual ID for that Adgruop that I'm seeing in my UI and my reports is "37783822050".


What am I doing wrong to get these different adgroup ID's when I use this basic operation? How can I fix it?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Garik, 

Could you check if you are using a 32-bit PHP? If you're using 32-bit PHP, you'll need to change all instances of intval() to floatval() before running an example. This is due to some IDs exceeding the 32-bit PHP_INT_MAX that intval() changes your value to. Please retry this example after performing this change and let me know if it works. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[Garik Tate]

Hey Shwetha,

Yep I'm currently using 32-bit PHP. After doing a little bit more research, I now see that that's the problem.

I don't know of a simple way to convert all intval() to floatval() across all files (if you know, please tell me). But now I know what the problem is. Thank you!