Add properties to stdClass object from another object

Question

I would like to be able to do the following:

$obj = new stdClass;
$obj->status = \"success\";

$obj2 = new stdClass;
$obj2->message = \"OK\";

Answer 1

You could use get_object_vars() on one of the stdClass object, iterate through those, and add them to the other:

function extend($obj, $obj2) {
    $vars = get_object_vars($obj2);
    foreach ($vars as $var => $value) {
        $obj->$var = $value;
    }
    return $obj;
}

Not sure if you'd deem that more elegant, mind you.

Edit: If you're not stingy about actually storing them in the same place, take a look at this answer to a very similar question.