Simon Holywell shows how to quickly create the stdClass in PHP and populate it with properties and values, by casting an array to an object:
$x = (object) [ 'a' => 'test', 'b' => 'test2', 'c' => 'test3' ]; var_dump($x); /* object(stdClass)#1 (3) { ["a"]=> string(4) "test" ["b"]=> string(5) "test2" ["c"]=> string(5) "test3" } */
A couple of things to keep in mind here are:
- In PHP, an associative array key have multiple same keys. If you cast such an associative array to object, the latest key will silently overwrite the value of the previous ones.
- The order of properties in the object will not necessarily match the order of keys in the associative array.
Very handy!