note 50791 added to language.types.type-juggling

In my much of my coding I have found it necessary to type-cast between objects of different class types. More specifically, I often want to take information from a database, convert it into the class it was before it was inserted, then have the ability to call its class functions as well. The following code is much shorter than some of the previous examples and seems to suit my purposes. It also makes use of some regular expression matching rather than string position, replacing, etc. It takes an object ($obj) of any type and casts it to an new type ($class_type). Note that the new class type must exist: function ClassTypeCast(&$obj,$class_type){ if(class_exists($class_type,true)){ $obj = unserialize(preg_replace"/^O:[0-9]+:\"[^\"]+\":/i", "O:".strlen($class_type).":\"".$class_type."\":", serialize($obj))); } } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50791 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50791&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50791&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50791&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50791&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50791&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50791&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php