How to convert an array to object in PHP?

Question

How can I convert an array like this to an object?

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Answer 1

Little complicated but easy to extend technique:

Suppose you have an array

$a = [
     'name' => 'ankit',
     'age' => '33',
     'dob' => '1984-04-12'
];

Suppose you have have a Person class which may have more or less attributes from this array. for example

class Person 
{
    private $name;
    private $dob;
    private $age;
    private $company;
    private $city;
}

If you still wanna change your array to the person object. You can use ArrayIterator Class.

$arrayIterator = new \ArrayIterator($a); // Pass your array in the argument.

Now you have iterator object.

Create a class extending FilterIterator Class; where you have to define the abstract method accept. Follow the example

class PersonIterator extends \FilterIterator
{
    public function accept()
    {
        return property_exists('Person', parent::current());
    }
}

The above impelmentation will bind the property only if it exists in the class.

Add one more method in the class PersonIterator

public function getObject(Person $object)
{
        foreach ($this as $key => $value)
        {
            $object->{'set' . underscoreToCamelCase($key)}($value);
        }
        return $object;
}

Make sure you have mutators defined in your class. Now you are ready to call these function where you want to create object.

$arrayiterator = new \ArrayIterator($a);
$personIterator = new \PersonIterator($arrayiterator);

$personIterator->getObject(); // this will return your Person Object.