Is there a way to assign an object property to an array?

Pretty sure there is a way to do this but what I tried so far does not work

Consider we have an object $localDB with some properties, I was looking for a clean way to build the $connexionInfo array without casting $localDB or using a foreach loop.

// This would be too easy if it worked 
$connexionInfo = array( "UID"      => $localDB->uid, 
                        "PWD"      => $localDB->pwd, 
                        "Database" => $localDB->DB
                       );

// tried using {} a few different ways, also does not seem to work
$connexionInfo = array( "UID" => {$localDB->uid}, 
                        "PWD" => {$localDB->pwd}, 
                         "Database"=>  {$localDB->DB} 
                       );

I'm pretty sure there is a clean way to do this. Anyone?

UPdate:

// 开发者_运维技巧Contrary to what I posted above ... this DOES actually do what it's supposed to!

 $connectionInfo = array("UID" => $localDB->uid, "PWD" =>$localDB->pwd, "Database"=> $localDB->DB);

use this function

function objectToArray($object)
{
    $array=array();
    foreach($object as $member=>$data)
    {
        $array[$member]=$data;
    }
    return $array;
}

You can try type casting your PHP 5 object to an array.

$array = (array) $localDB;

without casting or foreach then see the manual

get_object_vars

depending on the levels within the object you can just do

$array = (array) $object;

If you want arrays within the array you will have to use some kind of recursion
(I think, this was all I needed so I didn't test any further for my case)

But it looks like this would be a cleaner version of what you want

As stated in a comment under initial question, this is how one can assign obj properties to an array value:

$connectionInfo = array("UID" => $localDB->uid, "PWD" =>$localDB->pwd, "Database"=> $localDB->DB);