Just a quick one today, I’ve seen a few people asking how to convert an array to an object in PHP. All the responses to these questions seem to involve creating a recursive function to loop through the array and create corresponding properties in a stdClass for each key in the array.
There happens to be a MUCH simpler way built in to PHP from version 5.2, all you need to do is this:
$object = json_decode(json_encode($array));
This works because when you encode an array using JSON in PHP, non-numeric keys become object properties, so when the JSON string is convered back to an object, the new properties remain instead of being turned back into array keys.
Give it a try, it works perfectly.
- MB