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easy way to cast stdClass object into instance of my own class? - El Forum - 01-25-2009
[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
i have a stdClass object returned from the imap email extension function: imap_headerinfo()
i want to convert that stdClass object (or basically get its properties) into a message_header class that i wrote - it has methods i wrote that deal with the email header data.
here's how i am doing it now in a method (i'm not happy about this way, i found it on the comments for the php.net OO manual page)
Code:
function _set_class_vars( &$obj )
{
$class = get_class($this);
$class_vars = get_class_vars($class);
// check that each of the passed parameters are valid before setting the
// appropriate class variable.
foreach ( $obj as $var => $value ){
if ( array_key_exists( $var, $class_vars ) ){
$this->$var = $value;
}
else{
//p('setClassVars: class variable "'.$var.'" does not exist on class "' .$class.'"');
}
}
}is there another way to do this? like "type casting" from stdClass to custom class.
thanks in advance for any advice around this subject.