As far as I can tell, there is no prebuilt solution for this, so you can just roll your own:

function array_to_object($array) {
   $obj = new stdClass();

   foreach ($array as v) {
      if (strlen($k)) {
         if (is_array($v)) {
            $obj->{$k} = array_to_object($v); //RECURSION
         } else {
            $obj->{$k} = $v;
         }
      }
   }
   
   return $obj;
}

Here's my version. First it will test if the parameter passed is an array or object. If so it'll convert to array (if necessary) then run through each element (by reference) and recursively run the function on it. When it gets to a scalar value it will just return the value unmodified. Seems to work :-)

function object_to_array($obj) {
    //only process if it's an object or array being passed to the function
    if(is_object($obj) || is_array($obj)) {
        $ret = (array) $obj;
        foreach($ret as &$item) {
            //recursively process EACH element regardless of type
            $item = object_to_array($item);
        }
        return $ret;
    }
    //otherwise (i.e. for scalar values) return without modification
    else {
        return $obj;
    }
}

This should do it:

function cool_object_to_array($array) {
  foreach ($array as $key => &$value) {
    if (is_object($value)) {
      $type = get_class($value);
      $value = (array) $value;
      array_unshift($value, $type);
    }
    if (is_array($value)) {
      $value = cool_object_to_array($value);
    }
  }
  return $array;
}

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