Question

I have one object being the result of a database query, looking something like this (var_dump output):

object(stdClass)#17 (6) {
  ["id"]=>
  string(1) "1"
  ["title"]=>
  string(20) "Some Title"
  ["description"]=>
  string(41) "Some really good stuff. Description here."
  ["slug"]=>
  string(19) "some-slug-url"
  ["picture_url"]=>
  NULL
  ["price"]=>
  string(4) "5.99"
}

I just need all property values “transferred” to a different class which has the same property names. Is there a simple way to do this?

Answer 1

Take a look at PHP’s get_object_vars()-function to achieve the desired effect without tons of assignment statements:

foreach (get_object_vars($sourceObject) as $name => $value) {
    $destinationObject->$name = $value;
}

You should make sure that you add sufficient error-checking to this, depending on your needs.