Does PHP feature short hand syntax for objects?

Question

In javascript you can easily create objects and Arrays like so:

var aObject = { foo:\'bla\', bar:2 };
var anArray = [\'foo\', \'bar\', 2];

Answer 1

For simple objects, you can use the associative array syntax and casting to get an object:

 'bar');
echo $obj->foo; // yields "bar"

But looking at that you can easily see how useless it is (you would just leave it as an associative array if your structure was that simple).