Question

In jQuery plugins we can pass an anonymous object with properties.

$('selecter').function({property: 'value', property: 'value'})

in the plug in code jquery has a function called extend. what this does is it will take 2 objects as parameters and then overwrite object 1’s properties with the properties from object 2.

Is there a way to do this or something similar in php without the use of arrays?

Answer 1

If your objects just instances of stdClass – you can do just

$result = (object)array_merge((array)$a, (array)$b);

Otherwise just traverse one object in a loop and assign its properties to another object.

foreach (get_object_vars($b) as $key => $val) {
    $a->{$key} = $val;
}