Converting a particular array to an object

I'm looking for an elegant approach to co开发者_开发知识库nvert $array to $object.

If $array contains Array ( [0] => en=english [1] => fr=french ) the resulting $object should contain stdClass Object ( [en] => english [fr] => french )

The most elegant approach would be the one that uses the least variable names.

Should do it:

$object = new stdClass();

$array = array('en=english','fr=french', 'foo=bar=baz');
foreach($array as $item){
    list($name, $value) = explode('=', $item, 2);
    $object->$name = $value;
}

You could also use parse_ini_string

$object = (object) parse_ini_string(join(PHP_EOL, $array));

As long as all your values are key=val this will work.

All rules for ini files apply, meaning it will choke on foo=bar=baz but not on foo="bar=baz" because ini files allow additional = when it's put into quotes.

If you are not on PHP 5.3 yet, you can use parse_ini_file to accept the joined array contents from a data stream wrapper. This requires allow_url_include to be enabled in your php.ini though.

$object = (object) parse_ini_file(
    'data:text/plain,' . urlencode(join(PHP_EOL, $array))
);

In both cases, the output is the same.

Best way to do this:

<?php
$arr = array('en=english','test=blaat','foo=bar=test');


foreach ($arr as $item)
{
  $opts = explode('=',$item);
  $name = array_shift($opts);
  $obj->$name = implode('=',$opts);
}

print_r($obj);

Returns:

stdClass Object  
(  
    [en] => english  
    [test] => blaat  
    [foo] => bar=test  
)  

You could do this

foreach ($arr as $item)
{
   $things=explode('=',$item);
   $newArray[$things[0]]=$things[1];
}
$obj=(object) $newArray;