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

The method provided by crescentfresh works very well but I had a problem appending more properties to the object. to get around this problem I implemented the spl ArrayObject.

class ObjectParameter extends ArrayObject  {
     public function  __set($name,  $value) {
        $this->$name = $value;
    }

    public function  __get($name) {
      return $this[$name];
    }
}

//creating a new Array object
$objParam = new ObjectParameter;
//adding properties
$objParam->strName = "foo";
//print name
printf($objParam->strName);
//add another property
$objParam->strUser = "bar";

There is a lot you can do with this approach to make it easy for you to create objects even from arrays, hope this helps .