access a property via string with array in php?
- by sprugman
(This is in drupal, but I don't really think that matters.)
I have a big list of properties that I need to map between two objects, and in one, the value that I need to map is buried inside an array. I'm hoping to avoid hard-coding the property names in the code.
If I have a class like this:
class Product {
public $colors, $sizes;
}
I can access the properties like this:
$props = array('colors', 'sizes');
foreach ($props as $p) {
$this->$p = $other_object->$p;
}
As far as I can tell, if each of the properties on the left are an array, I can't do this:
foreach ($props as $p) {
$this->$p[0]['value'] = $other_object->$p;
}
Is that correct, or am I missing some clever way around this?
