How to convert an array to object in PHP?

Quick hack:

// assuming $var is a multidimensional array
$obj = json_decode (json_encode ($var), FALSE);

Not pretty, but works.

You can use the (object) function to convert your array into an object.

$arr= [128=> ['status'=>
                 'Figure A. Facebook \'s horizontal scrollbars showing up on a 1024x768 screen resolution.'],
                  129=>['status'=>'The other day at work, I had some spare time']];

            $ArrToObject=(object)$arr;
            var_dump($ArrToObject);

The result will be an object that contains arrays:

object(stdClass)#1048 (2) { [128]=> array(1) {

["status"]=> string(87) "Figure A. Facebook 's horizontal scrollbars showing up on a 1024x768 screen resolution." }

[129]=> array(1) { ["status"]=> string(44) "The other day at work, I had some spare time" } }

I also had this issue, but I noticed that json_decode converts JSON array to object.

So, I came about my solution by using json_encode($PHPArray) which returns A JSON string of object, then I decoded the string with Json_decode($string) and it would return a perfectly structured object. Shorthand

$object = json_decode(json_encode($array));

Or

$jsonString = json_encode($array);
$object = json_decode($jsonString);

This requires PHP7 because I chose to use a lambda function to lock away the 'innerfunc' within the main function. The lambda function is called recursively, hence the need for: "use ( &$innerfunc )". You could do it in PHP5 but could not hide the innerfunc.

function convertArray2Object($defs) {
    $innerfunc = function ($a) use ( &$innerfunc ) {
       return (is_array($a)) ? (object) array_map($innerfunc, $a) : $a; 
    };
    return (object) array_map($innerfunc, $defs);
}

use this function that i've made:

function buildObject($class,$data){
    $object = new $class;
    foreach($data as $key=>$value){
        if(property_exists($class,$key)){
            $object->{'set'.ucfirst($key)}($value);
        }
    }
    return $object;
}

Usage:

$myObject = buildObject('MyClassName',$myArray);

Multidimensional arrays into an object. this code is used for conversion of Bing search API try and catch method.

try {
        // Perform the Web request and get the JSON response
        $context = stream_context_create($options);
        $results = file_get_contents($url . "?cc=" . $country . "&category=" . $type, false, $context);
        $results = json_decode($results);
        return response()->json($results);
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        $results = array('value' => array(
                (object) array(
                    "name" => "Unable to Retrive News",
                    "url" => "http://www.sample.com/",
                    "image" => (object) array("thumbnail" => (object) array("contentUrl" => "")),
                    "publishedAt" => "",
                    "description" => "")
            )
        );
        $results = (object) $results;
        return response()->json($results);
    }

You can use Reflection:

<?php

$array = ['name'=>'maria','age'=>33];

class Person {

    public $name;
    public $age;

    public function __construct(string $name, string $age){
        $this->name  = $name;
        $this->age = $age;
    }
}

function arrayToObject(array $array, string $class_name){

    $r = new ReflectionClass($class_name);
    $object = $r->newInstanceWithoutConstructor();
    $list = $r->getProperties();
    foreach($list as $prop){
      $prop->setAccessible(true);
      if(isset($array[$prop->name]))
        $prop->setValue($object, $array[$prop->name]);
    } 

    return $object;

}

$pessoa1 = arrayToObject($array, 'Person');
var_dump($pessoa1);

If you need to cast an array to a specific class (as in my case I need the object to be of type Google_Service_AndroidPublisher_Resource_Inappproducts for my mock), you can str_replace the class name from stdClass to the intended class like this:

function castArrayToClass(array $array, string $className)
{
    //first cast the array to stdClass
    $subject = serialize((object)$array);
    //then change the class name
    $converted = str_replace(
        'O:8:"stdClass"',
        'O:'.strlen($className).':"'.$className.'"',
        $subject
    );
    unset($subject);

    return unserialize($converted);
}