Re: Generic cloner?

Umm, not sure I understand the question completely... but following the code below, why not just assign the object to a new variable? That'd give you an exact copy with a lot less code... --toby Richard Lynch wrote: > > > I'm wondering if there is an easy way to code a generic cloner at top > > level of object inheritance tree so that all descendents can follow? Or by > > nature the clone() function needs be implemented at final class > > def.? Thanks a lot! > > You could probably use something like: > > function clone($whatever){ > $clone = $whatever; > if (is_object($whatever)){ > while (list($var, $val) = each($whatever)){ > $clone->$var = clone($val); > } > } > elseif (is_array($whatever)){ > while (list($var, $val) = each($whatever)){ > $clone[$var] = clone($val); > } > } > else{ > $clone = $whatever; > } > return $clone; > } > > No promises this can be made to work, much less to do what you want, but it > might... > > -- > Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ > Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net