exactly, why bother with JavaScript literal representation?
the foreach loop was just an alternative to explicit object cast cause you did not like it .... I though it was more about control over what you want to cast and what you do not ... in any case, what I said does not change cause in php you have natural type hint over arrays and these are normally slightly faster so I do not get why you want objects rather than arrays ...
> Subject: RE: object literals
> From: robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: an_red@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: fsb@xxxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:14:21 -0400
>
> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 17:52 +0200, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> > you are in PHP, not in JavaScript.
> >
> > In PHP arrays are like collections or hash tables.
> > if you strictly need object cause
> >
> > $o->stuff
> > is better than
> > $o['stuff']
> >
> > having exactly the same number of characters, you can create a
> > function like
> >
> > function o(array $a){
> > $o = new stdClass;
> > foreach($a as $key => $value)
> > $o->$key = $value;
> > return $o;
> > }
> >
> >
> > and the syntax will be
> >
> > $o = o(array(
> > 'a' => "b",
> > 'c' => "d"
> > ));
> >
> > spot the difference from (object) array(whatever) ?
> >
> > I do not ... and that's why json_encode resolves associative arrays
> > rather than list automatically but still, if you are in PHP, you
> > should think about being familiar with associative arrays, also
> > because so far is the only class you cannot create/extend.
> >
> > class string {
> > // ok
> > }
> >
> > class object {
> > // ok
> > }
> >
> > class array {
> > // no way
> > }
> >
> > Regards
>
> First off, you compared the syntax between creating a PHP array and a
> JavaScript object when the previous post specifically spoke about
> getting a PHP "OBJECT". Now you've made a rather lengthy and redundant
> post trying to describe to me objects versus arrays in PHP. Lastly
> you've suggested writing a function to convert an array to an object
> using a foreach loop for the members which is completely unnecessary.
> The following will suffice:
>
> <?php
>
> function o( array $a )
> {
> return (object)$a;
> }
>
> ?>
>
> ... and the syntax will be:
>
> <?php
>
> $o = o(array
> (
> 'a' => "b",
> 'c' => "d",
> ));
>
> ?>
>
> But why bother when you could have just done:
>
> <?php
>
> $o = (object)array
> (
> 'a' => "b",
> 'c' => "d",
> );
>
> ?>
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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