Just typecast it
$array = (array) $yourObject;
From Arrays:
If an object is converted to an array, the result is an array whose elements are the object's properties. The keys are the member variable names, with a few notable exceptions: integer properties are unaccessible; private variables have the class name prepended to the variable name; protected variables have a '*' prepended to the variable name. These prepended values have null bytes on either side.
Example: Simple Object
$object = new StdClass;
$object->foo = 1;
$object->bar = 2;
var_dump( (array) $object );
Output:
array(2) {
'foo' => int(1)
'bar' => int(2)
}
Example: Complex Object
class Foo
{
private $foo;
protected $bar;
public $baz;
public function __construct()
{
$this->foo = 1;
$this->bar = 2;
$this->baz = new StdClass;
}
}
var_dump( (array) new Foo );
Output (with \0s edited in for clarity):
array(3) {
'\0Foo\0foo' => int(1)
'\0*\0bar' => int(2)
'baz' => class stdClass#2 (0) {}
}
Output with var_export instead of var_dump:
array (
'' . "\0" . 'Foo' . "\0" . 'foo' => 1,
'' . "\0" . '*' . "\0" . 'bar' => 2,
'baz' =>
stdClass::__set_state(array(
)),
)
To know more about php built-in class stdclass. You can read this documentation
Typecasting this way will not do deep casting of the object graph and you need to apply the null bytes (as explained in the manual quote) to access any non-public attributes. So this works best when casting StdClass objects or objects with only public properties. For quick and dirty (what you asked for) it's fine.
Also see this in-depth blog post:
- Fast PHP Object to Array conversion
Just typecast it
$array = (array) $yourObject;
From Arrays:
If an object is converted to an array, the result is an array whose elements are the object's properties. The keys are the member variable names, with a few notable exceptions: integer properties are unaccessible; private variables have the class name prepended to the variable name; protected variables have a '*' prepended to the variable name. These prepended values have null bytes on either side.
Example: Simple Object
$object = new StdClass;
$object->foo = 1;
$object->bar = 2;
var_dump( (array) $object );
Output:
array(2) {
'foo' => int(1)
'bar' => int(2)
}
Example: Complex Object
class Foo
{
private $foo;
protected $bar;
public $baz;
public function __construct()
{
$this->foo = 1;
$this->bar = 2;
$this->baz = new StdClass;
}
}
var_dump( (array) new Foo );
Output (with \0s edited in for clarity):
array(3) {
'\0Foo\0foo' => int(1)
'\0*\0bar' => int(2)
'baz' => class stdClass#2 (0) {}
}
Output with var_export instead of var_dump:
array (
'' . "\0" . 'Foo' . "\0" . 'foo' => 1,
'' . "\0" . '*' . "\0" . 'bar' => 2,
'baz' =>
stdClass::__set_state(array(
)),
)
To know more about php built-in class stdclass. You can read this documentation
Typecasting this way will not do deep casting of the object graph and you need to apply the null bytes (as explained in the manual quote) to access any non-public attributes. So this works best when casting StdClass objects or objects with only public properties. For quick and dirty (what you asked for) it's fine.
Also see this in-depth blog post:
- Fast PHP Object to Array conversion
You can quickly convert deeply nested objects to associative arrays by relying on the behavior of the JSON encode/decode functions:
$array = json_decode(json_encode($nested_object), true);
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In the simplest case, it's probably sufficient to "cast" the array as an object:
$object = (object) $array;
Another option would be to instantiate a standard class as a variable, and loop through your array while re-assigning the values:
$object = new stdClass();
foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
$object->$key = $value;
}
As Edson Medina pointed out, a really clean solution is to use the built-in json_ functions:
$object = json_decode(json_encode($array), FALSE);
This also (recursively) converts all of your sub arrays into objects, which you may or may not want. Unfortunately it has a 2-3x performance hit over the looping approach.
Warning! (thanks to Ultra for the comment):
json_decode on different enviroments converts UTF-8 data in different ways. I end up getting on of values '240.00' locally and '240' on production - massive dissaster. Morover if conversion fails string get's returned as NULL
you can simply use type casting to convert an array to object.
// *convert array to object* Array([id]=> 321313[username]=>shahbaz)
$object = (object) $array_name;
//now it is converted to object and you can access it.
echo $object->username;