Question

How would I alter the below code so that it returns itself as an array. E.g using $this

    public function toArray($data) {

        if (is_array($data) || is_object($data)) {

            $result = array();

            foreach ($data as $key => $value){
                $result[$key] = $this->toArray($value);
            }

            return $result;
        }

        return $data;           
    }

So that instead of passing the $data it converts all the private properties from $this into an array.

Answer 1

Something like this? get_object_vars()

$data = get_object_vars ($this);

also you can do like this(typecast):

$data = (array)$this;

Those two are a little different