Re: assigning objects

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David P. Schwartz wrote: > If I have a class that is used to represent a row in a db-table, defined thusly: > > class mytable > { > var $fld1, $fld2, $fld3; > : > : > function select_db( $where_str ) > { > : > $result = mysql_query( blah-blah ); > if ($result) > $obj = mysql_fetch_object( $result ); > $this = $obj; // does not work! > } > } > > Is there any way to assign the $obj values to corresponding $this vars, other > than saying: > > $this->fld1 = $obj->fld1; > $this->fld2 = $obj->fld2; > $this->fld3 = $obj->fld3; > > In c++ this would be accomplished with a copy constructor which, for most simple > cases like this, is implicitly defined. > > Thanks > -David > <?php $a=get_object_vars($obj) // or just use mysql_fetch_array() while (list($key, $val)=each($a)) $this->$key=$val; ?> Good enough? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>