Anonymous Objects in PHP

by jenny on 18 November 2009 - 07:42pm in

For real quick and dirty one-liner anonymous objects, just cast an associative array:

<?php
$obj = (object) array('foo' => 'bar', 'property' => 'value');

echo $obj->foo; // prints 'bar'
echo $obj->property; // prints 'value'
?>

... no need to create a new class or function to accomplish it.

Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php#84292

Raad, stdClass

Submitted by Oliver Nassar (not verified) on 06 January 2010 - 01:43pm.

Does that turn the array to an stdClass?

Casting

Submitted by jenny on 13 January 2010 - 11:07pm.

Yes, what you end up with in $obj is a stdClass. A print_r($obj); would look like this:

<?php
stdClass Object
(
    [foo] => bar
    [property] => value
)
?>