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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Convert an array in an object instance
From: fmmarzoa@gmx.net ("Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso")

Sorry, I've ask this question on general but no one seems to know if 
there's a solution for it. In fact, its possible to do something as:

$MyObject = new MyClass ();
$MyArray = (array) $MyObject;
$MyObject2 = (object) $MyArray;

But the original class of the object is lost -$MyObject2 appears as an 
instance of stdClass instead MyClass-. This wouldn't be a problem if 
there were a manner to tell PHP that $MyObject2 is a MyClass instance 
after the last line, but I didn't find a way to do that.

In Perl there's a function that's called 'bless' that servers for this 
purpouse:
http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/perl/perldoc/manual/perlfunc/bless.html

But I didn't found an equivalent in PHP.

I'm writting my own serialization routines and I need this to 
unserialize objects.

Thx.



Derick Rethans wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>Is it possible to convert an array in an object instance?
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>
>Please use the php-general@lists.php.net mailinglist for user support
>questions, this is the wrong list.
>
>Derick
>
>  
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