Is there a special object initializer construct in PHP like there is now in C#?

Question

I know that in C# you can nowadays do:

var a = new MyObject
{
    Property1 = 1,
    Property2 = 2
};

Is there something like that in PHP t

Answer 1

I went from c# to PHP too, so I got this working in PHP:

$this->candycane = new CandyCane(['Flavor' => 'Peppermint', 'Size' => 'Large']);

My objects have a base class that checks to see if there's one argument and if it's an array. If so it calls this:

public function LoadFromRow($row){
    foreach ($row as $columnname=>$columnvalue)
        $this->__set($columnname, $columnvalue);
}

It also works for loading an object from a database row. Hence the name.