Question

I store all variables settings for some project in a class named Ini. Variables are stored in group of arrays. For example, I have several arrays – one for ‘database’ related stuff, another for ‘debug’ related stuff and so on.

So to access for example some settings in my code i would type:

$ini = new Ini();
echo $ini->database['user'];
echo $ini->debug['mode'];

I don’t like my way of doing this. I would like to access variables stored inside Ini class like this:

$ini->database->user;

or

$ini->debug->mode;

The problem is that i am referencing non existing object inside another object. And i found no way to catch such call and return values stored in original Ini object (via PHP __get() method)

Would appreciate some help finding solution to my problem.

Answer 1

Just create objects of the standard class:

$a = new stdClass;
$a->database = new stdClass;
$a->database->host = 'localhost';


echo $a->database->host;

as an optional choice, you can take your existing arrays and cast them to objects and access with the same syntax:

$a = new stdClass;
$a->database = new stdClass;
$a->database = (object)array('host' => 'localhost');


echo $a->database->host;