Making a PHP object behave like an array?
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I'd like to be able to write a PHP class that behaves like an array and uses normal array syntax for getting & setting.
For example (where Foo is a PHP class of my making):
$foo = new Foo();
$foo['fooKey'] = 'foo value';
echo $foo['fooKey'];
I know that PHP has the _get and _set magic methods but those don't let you use array notation to access items. Python handles it by overloading __getitem__ and __setitem__.
Is there a way to do this in PHP? If it makes a difference, I'm running PHP 5.2.
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