On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> you are in PHP, not in JavaScript.
>
> In PHP arrays are like collections or hash tables.
> if you strictly need object cause
>
> $o->stuff
> is better than
> $o['stuff']
>
> having exactly the same number of characters, you can create a
> function like
>
> function o(array $a){
> $o = new stdClass;
> foreach($a as $key => $value)
> $o->$key = $value;
> return $o;
> }
>
>
> and the syntax will be
>
> $o = o(array(
> 'a' => "b",
> 'c' => "d"
> ));
>
> spot the difference from (object) array(whatever) ?
>
> I do not ... and that's why json_encode resolves associative arrays
> rather than list automatically but still, if you are in PHP, you
> should think about being familiar with associative arrays, also
> because so far is the only class you cannot create/extend.
>
> class string {
> // ok
> }
>
> class object {
> // ok
> }
>
> class array {
> // no way
> }
>
> Regards
First off, you compared the syntax between creating a PHP array and a
JavaScript object when the previous post specifically spoke about
getting a PHP "OBJECT". Now you've made a rather lengthy and redundant
post trying to describe to me objects versus arrays in PHP. Lastly
you've suggested writing a function to convert an array to an object
using a foreach loop for the members which is completely unnecessary.
The following will suffice:
<?php
function o( array $a )
{
return (object)$a;
}
?>
... and the syntax will be:
<?php
$o = o(array
(
'a' => "b",
'c' => "d",
));
?>
But why bother when you could have just done:
<?php
$o = (object)array
(
'a' => "b",
'c' => "d",
);
?>
Cheers,
Rob.
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