Convert PHP object to associative array?

Question

I'm integrating an API to my website which works with data stored in objects while my code is written using arrays. I'd like a quick and dirty function to convert an object to an array.

Answer 1

You can use the json_decode function to convert a JSON string representation of an object to an associative array in PHP. Here's an example:

// Assuming $obj is your object

$json = json_encode($obj);

$array = json_decode($json, true);

The second argument of json_decode set to true tells it to return an associative array instead of an object.