How do I access a PHP object attribute having a dollar sign?

Question

I have a PHP Object with an attribute having a dollar ($) sign in it.

How do I access the content of this attribute ?

Example :

echo $object-         


        

Answer 1

There are reflection methods that also allow you to construct method and attribute names that may be built by variables or contain special characters. You can use the ReflectionClass::getProperty ( string $name ) method.

$object->getProperty('variable$WithDollar');

Answer 2

1. With variable variables:

   $myVar = 'variable$WithDollar';
   echo $object->$myVar;
   

2. With curly brackets:

   echo $object->{'variable$WithDollar'};
   

Answer 3

I assume you want to access properties with variable names on the fly. For that, try

echo $object->{"variable".$yourVariable}

Answer 4

You don't.

The dollar sign has a special significance in PHP. Although it is possible to bypass the variable substitution in dereferencing class/object properties you NEVER should be doing this.

Don't try to declare variables with a literal '$'.

If you're having to deal with someoneelse's mess - first fix the code they wrote to remove the dollars then go and chop off their fingers.

C.

Answer 5

Thanks to your answers, I just found out how I can do that the way I intended :

echo $object->{'variable$WithDollar'}; // works !

I was pretty sure I tried every combination possible before.