forcing access to __PHP_Incomplete_Class object properties

Question

I\'m writing a module for a php cms. In a function (a callback) I can access an object that comes from the framework code.

This object is of type __PHP_Incomp

Answer 1

I found this hack which will let you cast an object:

function casttoclass($class, $object)
{
  return unserialize(preg_replace('/^O:\d+:"[^"]++"/', 'O:' . strlen($class) . ':"' . $class . '"', serialize($object)));
}

From http://blog.adaniels.nl/articles/a-dark-corner-of-php-class-casting/

So you can do:

$obj = casttoclass('stdClass', $incompleteObject);

and then access properties as normal.

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You could also define an unserialize_callback_func in a .htaccess/Apache configuration file. That way you wouldn't need to hack any PHP but you could include the file on demand.