Convert an array in an object instance

20 years ago by Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso — view source

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Hi,

Is it possible to convert an array in an object instance?

I can convert an object in an array as follows:

$Test = new MyClass ();
$TestArray = (array) $Test;

Then I've an array with all members of the object $Test, but it seems
that I cannot simply do:

$TestObject = (MyClass) $TestArray;

To recover the object in the inverse way, so... is there any manner to
do this?

Thanks a lot in advance,

20 years ago by Derick Rethans — view source

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Hi,

Is it possible to convert an array in an object instance?

Please use the php-general@lists.php.net mailinglist for user support
questions, this is the wrong list.

Derick

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20 years ago by Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso — view source

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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:

Hi,

Is it possible to convert an array in an object instance?

Please use the php-general@lists.php.net mailinglist for user support
questions, this is the wrong list.

Derick