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  Novice Question David Heller <daveh@allheller.net> - 2013-03-03 14:10 -0800
    Re: Novice Question Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2013-03-04 00:38 +0100
      Re: Novice Question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-04 01:52 +0100
        Re: Novice Question Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2013-03-04 23:12 +0100
    Re: Novice Question Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-04 02:31 -0800

#8521 — Novice Question

Hello

I'm doing some maintenance/upgrade of some old php4.3 code and I ran
across the following code snippet:
$gvns = (array)$gvns;
What it exactly is happening here? what does (array) mean?
never seen anything like this before.

Dave

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#8522

Am 03.03.2013 23:10, David Heller meinte:
>
> Hello
>
> I'm doing some maintenance/upgrade of some old php4.3 code and I ran
> across the following code snippet:
> $gvns = (array)$gvns;
> What it exactly is happening here? what does (array) mean?
> never seen anything like this before.

Type casting. (It's the same as $gvns = array($gvns); )

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.casting>


Gregor

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#8523

Gregor Kofler wrote:

> Am 03.03.2013 23:10, David Heller meinte:
>> I'm doing some maintenance/upgrade of some old php4.3 code and I ran
>> across the following code snippet:
>> $gvns = (array)$gvns;
>> What it exactly is happening here? what does (array) mean?
>> never seen anything like this before.
> 
> Type casting.

ACK.

> (It's the same as $gvns = array($gvns); )

Evidently it is not.

$ php -r 'class C {}; print_r((array) new C()); print_r(array(new C()));'
Array
(
)
Array
(
    [0] => C Object
        (
        )

)
 

PointedEars
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#8529

Am 04.03.2013 01:52, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn meinte:
> Gregor Kofler wrote:
>
>> Am 03.03.2013 23:10, David Heller meinte:
>>> I'm doing some maintenance/upgrade of some old php4.3 code and I ran
>>> across the following code snippet:
>>> $gvns = (array)$gvns;
>>> What it exactly is happening here? what does (array) mean?
>>> never seen anything like this before.
>>
>> Type casting.
>
> ACK.
>
>> (It's the same as $gvns = array($gvns); )
>
> Evidently it is not.

Indeed. My claim is only valid for scalar values.

Gregor

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#8525

On Mar 3, 10:10 pm, David Heller <da...@allheller.net> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm doing some maintenance/upgrade of some old php4.3 code and I ran
> across the following code snippet:
> $gvns = (array)$gvns;
> What it exactly is happening here? what does (array) mean?
> never seen anything like this before.
>
> Dave

It is a construct often used to change object properties into an
associative array. Another method (which may have slightly different
results) is to use the get_object_vars() function. Search Google for
php get_object_vars vs array cast
to see discussions on the differences.

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