PHP – creating anonymous objects on the fly

April 26, 2009 4 comments

With this quick line of code it’s possible to convert arrays into anonymous objects in PHP

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

This is actually quite useful when using Zend AMF to transfer objects from PHP to Flex or Flash,
without having to create classes for them.

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Written by Albulescu Cosmin about 13 years ago.

Very interesting post. Thanks.
Written by Squeak? about 12 years ago.

Thanks, saved me a lot of nerve and time.
P.S. I don’t want to grammarnazi here, but could you correct “quiet”? I spent a few minutes thinking what’s so quiet about this, then it hit me
Written by mark about 12 years ago.

haha – thanks for the correction – I always hit the wrong keys when I’m trying to type “quite”
Written by php create object without class | Ask Programming & Technology about 11 years ago.

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