Objects

Object Initialization

To initialize an object, you use the new statement to instantiate the object to a variable.


<?php

class foo

{

    function do_foo()

    {

        echo "Doing foo."; 

    }

}



$bar = new foo;

$bar->do_foo();

?>

For a full discussion, please read the section Classes and Objects.

If an object is converted to an object, it is not modified. If a value of any other type is converted to an object, a new instance of the stdClass built in class is created. If the value was null, the new instance will be empty. For any other value, a member variable named scalar will contain the value.


<?php

$obj = (object) 'ciao';

echo $obj->scalar;  // outputs 'ciao'

?>

Objects

Object Initialization

Converting to object