Richard Castera

Hey Richard, I really like your blog! It's great! Also Google ads are very smoothly integrated.

$obj = new ArrayObject($array);

Hi Richard. This is very useful function to convert Array to stdClass object.

Please check out with:

$person = array (

   'first' => array('name' => array('first_name' => 'Richard', 'last_name' => 'Castera')  )

);

Thanks

Great post!
Just discovered that

$a = (object)mysql_fetch_assoc();

is faster than

$a = mysql_fetch_object();

I really like this ... thanks

I was looking for something like this today and found your blog. While I couldn't get your solution to work (probably because I'm really tired at the moment but it did inspire me to create my own version which I thought I would share:

public function makeObjects($data) {

	$object = (object) $data;

	foreach ($object as $property) {

		if (is_array($property)) $this->makeObjects($property);

	}
	return $object;

}

Its a little more compact and easier to follow I think. You can also embellish and add in the strtolower and trim for the properties if you like.

You can also define your own class:

class arrayClass

{

    public function __construct( $array = array() )

    {

        foreach( $array as $key => $value )

        {

            if( TRUE === is_array($value) )

                $this->$key = new arrayClass( $value );

            else

                $this->$key = $value;

        }

    }

}

Then use it like this:

$array = array( 'a' => 'abc', 'b' => 'xyz', 'c' => array('one' => 1, 'two' => 2) );

$obj = new arrayClass( $array );

print $obj->c->one; //prints '1'

Great post Richard! I was having a problem with a class I needed to serialize to store the value but I needed dynamic variables and stdClass kept erroring out saying:

Fatal error: Cannot access empty property

It didn't even occur that I should just create an assoc array and cast it to an object. Thanks for publishing this!

Thanks for sharing that!

Very nice function indeed,

However I'm having a problem at this moment, it seems that when I call the function to convert an multidimensional associate array, it chops off the first element in the converted stdobject

I'll let you know what I find out.

settype($array,'object');

I too was having the same problem as Chang using this code where the first element of an multidimensional associate array was being lost.

The problem is in the test "!empty($name)". If the array uses numeric indices, index zero is considered empty.

I changed "!empty($name)" to "!is_null($name)" and conversion worked as expected.

Interesting, all the samples that I found on the web use the !empty test and would all fail to convert for zero index.

Hope this helps.

I'm trying to implement this with CJ SOAP API, but I think CJ SOAP API is more complicated, I'm still not able to convert stdClass Object to Array.

stdClass is an internal class name, not documented and so not recommended to use directly. it might even change in future php versions. instead, you should stick to converting arrays to object, or if you just need a blank object, convert a null to object.

With all due respect, many frameworks like Drupal will come to a screaming halt if using stdClass directly is disallowed so I think its safe to say that stdClass will be a usable term for the foreseeable future.

Buddy! You are best!
I waste 3 hr in looking for this.
Tnx very-very!

Hello Richard!

Just got here from Google, I am currently working on something to do with the Twitter API and that makes a array and stuff. And this just helped me to get the most recent status, I am very grateful, for this! Thank you!

Thank you, that has me very helped.

Cool, this is what i was looking for.

Man, Your the rock.

I've made a similar solution and also a php extension that does that:
http://freebsd.co.il/cast/

Hi maybe the following onliner-function is also a possible solution for some of you. It is part of a static method of a class named 'Type'. So it can be replaced by a global method if needed:

static public function array2Object($aArray)

{

	return is_array($aArray) ? (object)array_map('Type::array2Object', $aArray) : $aArray;

}

And try to avoid the following mistake. It took me a moment to realize it when I made the mistake. An example:

$aTest = array('field1', 'field2', 'field3');

$oTestInt = Type::array2Object($aTest);

$oTestString = Type::array2Object(array_fill_keys($aTest, ''));

Make a choice what type of object-properties you want: integer ($oTestInt) or string ($oTestString).

I found out another way. I was looking for a way to reference the array returned from a function and happened on your post. As is turns out it is impossible in PHP to do what I wanted. Well, I FOUND A WORKAROUND, using your post and users' comments I was inspired. It's not elegant and probably has more CPU overhead. Hopefully it helps somebody who is trying to do the same thing I was.

Here's what I wanted to do:

<?php

print_r(get_defined_functions()['user']);

?>

Then I found your post on how to convert arrays to objects thinking that I could:

<?php

    print_r(arrayToObject(get_defined_functions())->user);

?>

But that doesn't work in PHP. So finally I came up with:

<?php

    print_r(json_decode(json_encode(get_defined_functions()))->user);

?>

SUCCESS!! I just don't know why there isn't a function to do this already. Perhaps the powers that be will copy the part of JSON handling that is converting the data to an object and make it into a built-in function. One can only hope. Thx for the post!

Simple and awesome . Thanks

Great. Just what I was looking for, and thanks for the sharing.

What I'm after now, is something that does the reverse, lets me now work with that object as an array.

Works great, thanks!

Just found this very useful when using WordPress's native database access..

$example = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` WHERE ID= '20'");

print_r($example);

returns something like

Array ( 0 => stdClass Object ([id] => 20, [post_name] => example, ...) )

trying to mimic that result from form data was doing my head in.. so thank you

Nice work Richard! Was a little bit confused about stdClass. Thank you!

It works, Thank you very much, ..

Hi great post was looking for something like this however im stuck as cannot get the recursion properly working....

class config
{
function __construct() {}

function get_objects()
{
return get_object_vars($this);
}

public function make_objects($data)
{
$object = (object) $data;

foreach( $object as $key => $value )
{
if(is_array($value) )
{
$this->$key = (object) $value;//$this->make_objects( $value );
}
else
{
$this->$key = $value;
}
}
}

function test()
{
$arr = array(
'a' => 'test a',
'b' => array(
'b_arr' => 'test b',
'c' => array(
'c_arr' => 'test c'
)
)
);

$this->make_objects($arr);
}
}

if i print_r the config object i get... when not using the recursive method which fine except for the C ARRAY which is expected.

config Object ( [a] => test a [b] => stdClass Object ( [b_arr] => test b [c] => Array ( [c_arr] => test c ) ) )

however when i use the method as recursive i get...

config Object ( [a] => test a [b_arr] => test b [c_arr] => test c [c] => [b] => )

so i love the object after the first array and also adds some crap to the end

any help would be greatly appreciated...

i used ypur code .

and add that to my db
:

$array = array(
"title" => "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban",
"author" => "J. K. Rowling",
"publisher" => "Arthur A. Levine Books",
"amazon_link" => "http://www.amazon.com/dp/0439136369/"
);

$book = new stdClass;
$book->title = "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban";
$book->author = "J. K. Rowling";
$book->publisher = "Arthur A. Levine Books";
$book->amazon_link = "http://www.amazon.com/dp/0439136369/";

I'd like to share my solution using json with php 5.3 up
<?php
function arrayToObject($data) {
if(is_array($data)) {
$data = json_encode($data);
$data = json_decode($data);
return $data;
}else{
return $data;
}
}

function objectToArray($data){
if(is_array($data)) {
$data = json_encode($data);
$data = json_decode($data,true);
return $data;
}else{
return $data;
}
}
?>

What I always do to preserve multidimensionality is json_decode(json_encode());


<?php
$array = array("this"=>array("that","this"=>"then","those"),"them","test"=>"that");
print_r(json_decode(json_encode($array)));
?>