How do I convert an object to an array?

Question

response->docs);
?>

Outputs the following:

    Array 
(
    [0] => Object 
            (         


        

Answer 1

You can quickly convert deeply nested objects to associative arrays by relying on the behavior of the JSON encode/decode functions:

$array = json_decode(json_encode($response->response->docs), true);

Answer 2

You should look at get_object_vars , as your properties are declared private you should call this inside the class and return its results.

Be careful, for primitive data types like strings it will work great, but I don't know how it behaves with nested objects.

in your case you have to do something like;

<?php
   print_r(get_object_vars($response->response->docs));
?>

Answer 3

Careful:

$array = (array) $object;

does a shallow conversion ($object->innerObject = new stdClass() remains an object) and converting back and forth using json works but it's not a good idea if performance is an issue.

If you need all objects to be converted to associative arrays here is a better way to do that (code ripped from I don't remember where):

function toArray($obj)
{
    if (is_object($obj)) $obj = (array)$obj;
    if (is_array($obj)) {
        $new = array();
        foreach ($obj as $key => $val) {
            $new[$key] = toArray($val);
        }
    } else {
        $new = $obj;
    }

    return $new;
}

Answer 4

Simple version:

$arrayObject = new ArrayObject($object);
$array = $arrayObject->getArrayCopy();

Updated recursive version:

class RecursiveArrayObject extends ArrayObject
{
    function getArrayCopy()
    {
        $resultArray = parent::getArrayCopy();
        foreach($resultArray as $key => $val) {
            if (!is_object($val)) {
                continue;
            }
            $o = new RecursiveArrayObject($val);
            $resultArray[$key] = $o->getArrayCopy();
        }
        return $resultArray;
    }
}

$arrayObject = new RecursiveArrayObject($object);
$array = $arrayObject->getArrayCopy();

Answer 5

//My Function is worked. Hope help full for you :)
      $input = [
            '1' => (object) [1,2,3],
            '2' => (object) [4,5,6,
                (object) [6,7,8,
                [9, 10, 11,
                    (object) [12, 13, 14]]]
            ],
            '3' =>[15, 16, (object)[17, 18]]
        ];

        echo "<pre>";
        var_dump($input);
        var_dump(toAnArray($input));

      public function toAnArray(&$input) {

        if (is_object($input)) {
            $input = get_object_vars($input);
        }
        foreach ($input as &$item) {
            if (is_object($item) || is_array($item)) {
                if (is_object($item)) {
                    $item = get_object_vars($item);
                }
                self::toAnArray($item);
            }
        }
    }