Have you ever seen a scenario where you’re accessing data as an object, such as when you’re using WordPress’s database interface or when you’re parsing XML files with SimpleXML? You have something like echo $result->name.
Have you ever wondered how that was done? Using PHP’s stdClass feature you can create an object, and assign data to it, without having to formally define a class.
Suppose you wanted to quickly create a new object to hold some data about a book. You would do something like this:
$book = new stdClass; $book->title = "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"; $book->author = "J. K. Rowling"; $book->publisher = "Arthur A. Levine Books"; $book->amazon_link = "http://www.amazon.com/dp/0439136369/";
You can then access the data by calling Continue reading →$book->title and so on.
