Convert Array to Object PHP

Question

How can i convert an array like this to object?

    [128] => Array
        (
            [status] => Figure A.
 Facebook's horizontal scrollbars showing up on a 1024x768 screen resolution.
        )

    [129] => Array
        (
            [status] => The other day at work, I had some spare time
        )

)

Answer 1

The easy way would be

$object = (object)$array;

But that's not what you want. If you want objects you want to achieve something, but that#s missing in this question. Using objects just for the reason of using objects makes no sense.

Answer 2

You could create an standard class variable (very basic object):

$object = new stdClass();

and loop through your array and re-assign the values

foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
    $object->$key = $value;
}

Keep in mind that this won't work for arrays with numeric keys/indices as variables cannot start with numbers.

Answer 3

There's no built-in method to do it as far as I'm aware, but it's as easy as a simple loop:

    $obj= new stdClass();

    foreach ($array as $k=> $v) {
        $obj->{$k} = $v;
    }

You can expound on that if you need it to build your object recursively.

Answer 4

CakePHP has a recursive Set::map class that basically maps an array into an object. You may need to change what the array looks like in order to make the object look the way you want it.

http://api.cakephp.org/view_source/set/#line-158

Worst case, you may be able to get a few ideas from this function.

Answer 5

3 ways:

1) Fake a real object

    class convert{

    public $varible;

    public function __construct($array)
    {
     $this = $array;
    }

    public static function toObject($array)
    {
     $array = new convert($array);
     return $array;
    }

}

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2) Convert the $array into an object by casting it to an object

// ...
$array =& (object) $array;  // reference operator, may solve your not working casting
// ...

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3) Manually convert the $array into an object

$object = object;
foreach($arr as $key => $value)
{
$object->{$key} = $value;
}

Answer 6

This one worked for me

  function array_to_obj($array, &$obj)
  {
    foreach ($array as $key => $value)
    {
      if (is_array($value))
      {
      $obj->$key = new stdClass();
      array_to_obj($value, $obj->$key);
      }
      else
      {
        $obj->$key = $value;
      }
    }
  return $obj;
  }

function arrayToObject($array)
{
 $object= new stdClass();
 return array_to_obj($array,$object);
}

usage :

$myobject = arrayToObject($array);
print_r($myobject);

returns :

    [127] => stdClass Object
        (
            [status] => Have you ever created a really great looking website design
        )

    [128] => stdClass Object
        (
            [status] => Figure A.
 Facebook's horizontal scrollbars showing up on a 1024x768 screen resolution.
        )

    [129] => stdClass Object
        (
            [status] => The other day at work, I had some spare time
        )

like usual you can loop it like:

foreach($myobject as $obj)
{
  echo $obj->status;
}