How to Cast Objects in PHP

Question

Ive some classes that share some attributes, and i would like to do something like:

$dog = (Dog) $cat;

is it possible or is there any gener

Answer 1

You do not need casting. Everything is dynamic.

I have a class Discount.
I have several classes that extends this class:
ProductDiscount
StoreDiscount
ShippingDiscount
...

Somewhere in the code I have:

$pd = new ProductDiscount();
$pd->setDiscount(5, ProductDiscount::PRODUCT_DISCOUNT_PERCENT);
$pd->setProductId(1);

$this->discounts[] = $pd;

.....

$sd = new StoreDiscount();
$sd->setDiscount(5, StoreDiscount::STORE_DISCOUNT_PERCENT);
$sd->setStoreId(1);

$this->discounts[] = $sd;

And somewhere I have:

foreach ($this->discounts as $discount){

    if ($discount->getDiscountType()==Discount::DISCOUNT_TYPE_PRODUCT){

        $productDiscount = $discount; // you do not need casting.
        $amount = $productDiscount->getDiscountAmount($this->getItemTotalPrice());
        ...
    }

}// foreach

Where getDiscountAmount is ProductDiscount specific function, and getDiscountType is Discount specific function.