Comments on: Using PHP Generic Objects To Organize Your Code

By: Michael Calkins

Michael Calkins — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:09:13 +0000

Just reorganized my class however I’m wonder why have a get() function and not just use $user->var['name']?

By: sherif sakr

sherif sakr — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:53:51 +0000

I have learned a lot of useful things and enhance my my in programming from your great blog

thank you very much

By: Marcin

Marcin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:24:29 +0000

tim, you’re right ;-)
Or we can use casting:

‘b’,
‘c’ => ‘d’,
);

//Make generic: ;-)
$obj = (object)$array;

var_dump($obj);

//unload
unset($obj->a);

var_dump($obj);

//set
$obj->test = ‘foo’;
var_dump($obj);

//get
echo $obj->c;

;-)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:51:54 +0000

Simplify by using

mysql_fetch_object($row, ‘generic’)

This will populate all the fields of the given object using returned rows. It returns the new object.

By: Thomas Eng

Thomas Eng — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:07:25 +0000

You could alse do:

function puts($s) {
print $s . “\n”;
}

class Object {
function __construct() {
$a = array_shift( func_get_args() );
foreach($a as $key => $value) {
$this->{$key} = $value;
}
}
}
$o = new Object(array( “name” => “John Doe”, “age” => 31) );
puts($o->name);
puts($o->age);

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:31:54 +0000

@azwan: I don’t do anything too terrible advanced with this class, although you could. That’s the beauty in its simplicity!

By: azwan

azwan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:34:47 +0000

David, thanks for sharing this. I just started learning about OOP and this class really helps. Simple and seems practical.

Anyway, some questions to ask (maybe other ppl can also help)

Will you use this generic class as a class for other classes to inherit/extend?
What about retrieving mulitple records (will it be array in array) in vars?

I’m thinking of using the class for mainly data retrieving/manipulation from database.

Thanks in advance.

By: david

david — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:16:03 +0000

@Sat: I’ll fix this. Stupid WordPress…

By: Sat Pirott

Sat Pirott — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:57 +0000

Hey Dave! Nice class you have there! Did not think about this option before. But anyways, there is a big ‘error’ (if I can call it like that) which I like to point to. It’s not in the code, rather ‘visual’. After the heading “Database Usage” the whole content get’s bold, up to here! Dunno why, but it looks REALLY ugly! Hope you’ll fix that for others :-).

By: Marc A. Champlain

Marc A. Champlain — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:07 +0000

I code only in PHP5 so I don’t know for earlier version, but you could simply do:

$person = (object) null; // or $person = new stdClass();
$person->name = “Marc”;
$person->age = “28″;
echo $person->age;