PHP object literal

Question

In PHP, I can specify array literals quite easily:

array(     array("name" => "John", "hobby" => "hiking"),     array("name" => "Jane", "hobby" => "dancing"),     ... ) 

But what if I want array of objects? How can I specify object literal in PHP? I.e. in javascript it would be:

[     {name: "John", hobby: "hiking"},     {name: "Jane", hobby: "dancing"} ] 

Answer 1

As BoltClock mentioned there is no object literal in PHP however you can do this by simply type casting the arrays to objects:

$testArray = array(     (object)array("name" => "John", "hobby" => "hiking"),     (object)array("name" => "Jane", "hobby" => "dancing") );  echo "Person 1 Name: ".$testArray[0]->name; echo "Person 2 Hobby: ".$testArray[1]->hobby; 

Answer 2

As of PHP 5.4 you can also use the short array syntax:

$json = [     (object) ['name' => 'John', 'hobby' => 'hiking'],     (object) ['name' => 'Jane', 'hobby' => 'dancing'], ];