Question

Using PHP 5.3.3 and Drupal 7.17 I’ve created a short custom PHP script, in which I’d like to call Drupal’s function – which in turn expects an object having a pass property:

function user_check_password($password, $account) {
  if (substr($account->pass, 0, 2) == 'U$') {
    $stored_hash = substr($account->pass, 1);
    $password = md5($password);
  }
  .....
}

So in my script I try to create such an object “on the fly”:

<?php

require_once('/path/to/drupal/includes/password.inc');
........
$sth = $db->prepare(SQL);
$sth->execute(array($username));
if ($row = $sth->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
        if (user_check_password($password, array('pass' => $row['pass']))) {
                header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
                print json_encode($row);
        }
}

However this gives me an error: Trying to get property of non-object

Which probably means: PHP doesn’t accept my array, it wants an object there.

How could I create an anonymous object “on the fly” then to make it happy?

Answer 1

You are getting an error, because Array is not an Object. If you don’t want to manually create an object (as in the answer by @adityamenon), then you can simply cast your array to object:

user_check_password($password, (object)array('pass' => $row['pass']))