Get PHP class property by string

Question

Like this

<?php

$prop = 'Name';

echo $obj->$prop;

Or, if you have control over the class, implement the ArrayAccess interface and just do this

echo $obj['Name'];

If you want to access the property without creating an intermediate variable, use the {} notation:

$something = $object->{'something'};

That also allows you to build the property name in a loop for example:

for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {
    $something = $object->{'something' . $i};
    // ...
}

What you're asking about is called Variable Variables. All you need to do is store your string in a variable and access it like so:

$Class = 'MyCustomClass';
$Property = 'Name';
$List = array('Name');

$Object = new $Class();

// All of these will echo the same property
echo $Object->$Property;  // Evaluates to $Object->Name
echo $Object->{$List[0]}; // Use if your variable is in an array

Something like this? Haven't tested it but should work fine.

function magic($obj, $var, $value = NULL)
{
    if($value == NULL)
    {
        return $obj->$var;
    }
    else
    {
        $obj->$var = $value;
    }
}

Just store the property name in a variable, and use the variable to access the property. Like this:

$name = 'Name';

$obj->$name = 'something';
$get = $obj->$name;

There might be answers to this question, but you may want to see these migrations to PHP 7

source: php.net

It is simple, $obj->{$obj->Name} the curly brackets will wrap the property much like a variable variable.

This was a top search. But did not resolve my question, which was using $this. In the case of my circumstance using the curly bracket also helped...

example with Code Igniter get instance

in an sourced library class called something with a parent class instance

$this->someClass='something';
$this->someID=34;

the library class needing to source from another class also with the parents instance

echo $this->CI->{$this->someClass}->{$this->someID};