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MMDeveloper on 10/02/08

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Convert Array to Object, infinite dimensions

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This function will convert any multidimensional array to an equivalent multidimensional object. It will recursively traverse the array to an infinite number of dimensions.

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<?php
 
$array = array (
		array (
 
			),
		array (
				array (
 
					)
			)
	);
 
function bindArrayToObject($array) {
	$return = new stdClass();
	foreach ($array as $k => $v) {
		if (is_array($v)) {
			$return->$k = bindArrayToObject($v);
		}
		else {
			$return->$k = $v;
		}
	}
 
	return $return;
}
 
$newObject = bindArrayToObject($array);
print_r($newObject);
?>

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Posted By: purefusion on October 24, 2008

You may also be able to get away with doing: $obj = (object)$arr; Or as a specific class: $obj = (YourClass)$array;

Posted By: bugfix on October 21, 2011

Hello

Good work it is very useful.

However, maybe the is a gap that could be a problem : when we have an array in a standard object, this array will not be converted because the script will call itself only if the container is an array.

So we can fix it as this :

[...] foreach ($array as $k => $v) { if (isarray($v)) $return->$k = $this->bindArrayToObject($v); else if (isobject($v)) $return->$k = $this->bindArrayToObject($v); // BUG FIX else $return->$k = $v; } [...]

Now, we analyse the objects too, and if they contains arrays, they will be converted too.

if (isarray($v) || isobject($v)) is better but I want to if (is_array($v)) the line of the bugfix :)