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

According to the new PHP syntaxes,

You can use

$array = [1,2,3];

And for associative arrays

$array = ['name'=>'Sanket','age'=>22];

For objects you can typecast the array to object

$object = (object)['name'=>'Sanket','age'=>22];