April 9, 2012
Force variable pass as object
Question by Gabriel Santos
I need to define the type of passed variable as an generic object, how?
Tried:
public function set($service = null, (object) $instance) {
[..]
}
Can stdClass help? How?
Thanks!
Answer by zerkms
Nope, in php all classes aren’t derive from the common ancestor.
So doubtfully you can use current php’s implementation to state “object of any class”
Answer by Starx
No, the object has to be some class. You can give the any class name as object’s type
public function set($service = null, ClassName $instance) {
//now the instance HAS to be the object of the class
}
Or a basic trick would be to create a basic class yourself
Class GenericObject {}
$myobj = new GenericObject();
$myobj -> myCustomVar = 'my custom var';
//Now send it
public function set($service = null, GenericObject $instance) {
[...]
}
