Question

Simple question here… I was wondering if it’s possible to access class propertys by it’s name in any way.

Imagine this scenario:

$array = array(
    'foo' => 'bar',
    'hello' => 'world',
    'chuck' => 'norris'
);

And then have this class:

class MegaClass {
    public $foo, $hello, $chuck;
}

I was wondering if I could set MegaClass::foo to bar, MegaClass::hello to world and so on, automatically. So, given the array, and given the object, the object is filled. This could be really handy when retreiving data from a form with properties filled…

Answer 1

Well for one thing if you wanted to do MegaClass::foo they would have to be static.

And if they were static you could do:

foreach($array as $key=>$val){
    MegaClass::$key = $val;
}

And if they were not static (but were still public):

foreach($array as $key=>$val){
    $MegaClassObject->$key = $val;
}