note 102735 deleted from language.types.object by googleguy

Note Submitter: contact at mullanaphy dot com ---- Have an stdClass and want to convert it recursively to an array, or vice versa? Here's two very simple functions. <?php # A static class of mine, has more conversions in it, yet these two are the relevent ones. final class Convert { # Convert a stdClass to an Array. static public function object_to_array(stdClass $Class){ # Typecast to (array) automatically converts stdClass -> array. $Class = (array)$Class; # Iterate through the former properties looking for any stdClass properties. # Recursively apply (array). foreach($Class as $key => $value){ if(is_object($value)&&get_class($value)==='stdClass'){ $Class[$key] = self::object_to_array($value); } } return $Class; } # Convert an Array to stdClass. static public function array_to_object(array $array){ # Iterate through our array looking for array values. # If found recurvisely call itself. foreach($array as $key => $value){ if(is_array($value)){ $array[$key] = self::array_to_object($value); } } # Typecast to (object) will automatically convert array -> stdClass return (object)$array; } } ?>