Re: Casting objects.

2010/1/18 Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net>: > Shawn McKenzie wrote: >>> >> Never mind, that was stupid. I saw that somewhere before, but obviously >> it doesn't work. >> > > I found some code, maybe I redeem myself? > > static public function cast(&$object, $class=__CLASS__){ > >        if(class_exists($class)) { >                $object = unserialize( >                       >  preg_replace('/^O:[0-9]+:"[^"]+":/i', >                       >  'O:'.strlen($class).':"'.$class.'":', >                        serialize($object))); >        } > } > > $row = odbc_fetch_object($result); > structuresRemovalReason::cast($row); > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > That's an interesting approach. Though I'm going to use reflection. I realise I need to hold some of the data in strings where the data is not a string (datetimes for example). So, using a docblock with a customtag and this seems to be working just fine. Extended ReflectionClass and ReflectionProperty. Thanks, Richard. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling