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<\/p>\nWell hello there, I\u2019m back <\/p>\n
If you are a curious person, like me, you must have wandered in the core code of PHP frameworks like Laravel or Yii, and you must have seen this\u00a0stdClass<\/strong> here and there. Now, let\u2019s see what is that and how it helps us to code cleaner and more efficient.<\/p>\n Okay if you came from or know even just a little Java, you\u2019ll familiar with this concept called\u00a0Dynamic Properties<\/strong>, to create a new object in Java somehow it\u2019ll look like this:<\/p>\n See?\u00a0Sometimes all that is necessary is a property bag to throw key value pairs into. One way is to use array, but this requires quoting all keys.\u00a0Another way is to use dynamic properties on an instance of StdClass<\/strong>. StdClass<\/strong> is a sparsely documented class in PHP which has no predefined properties.<\/p>\n You can even cast an array directly to an object in a sec:<\/p>\n To conclusion,\u00a0Objects are really useful when you\u2019re working with a large data structure, as you can have an object with nested sub-arrays in it. And\u00a0StdClass\u00a0<\/strong>(std<\/em> stand for standard<\/em>)is just a generic \u2019empty bag\u2019 class that\u2019s used when casting other types to objects with what ever properties you want in them. BUT\u00a0<\/strong>despite what the others say, StdClass\u00a0<\/strong>is not<\/strong> the base class for objects in PHP. Please remember that.<\/p>\n Next week I\u2019ll be back with you guys to discuss about\u00a0Trait\u00a0<\/strong> Dang.NH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" stdClass shows up all over the core of Laravel and Yii. Here is what it actually is, how dynamic properties work in PHP, and when a property bag beats an array.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-php"],"yoast_head":"\n\r\nconst x = {\r\n a: 'test',\r\n b: 'test2',\r\n c: 'test3'\r\n};\r\n<\/pre>\nWell, before PHP 5.4 object\u2019s properties must be predefined before we can set or get it with the magic method<\/em>. What a bumper! But luckily, now we can define a new object as quick and dynamic as this:<\/div>\n\n\r\n$book = new stdClass;\r\n$book->title = "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban";\r\n$book->author = "J. K. Rowling";\r\n$book->publisher = "Arthur A. Levine Books";\r\n$book->amazon_link = "http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0439136369\/";\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\r\n$array = array(\r\n "title" => "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban",\r\n "author" => "J. K. Rowling",\r\n "publisher" => "Arthur A. Levine Books",\r\n "amazon_link" => "http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0439136369\/"\r\n);\r\n \r\n$books = (object) $array;\r\n<\/pre>\n
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