Description:

nice core data object

Code:

<?This is one of the best php functions. Look at what you can do

class Object
{
   var $updtFields;//keep track of affected values
   function Object($record="") {
       if (is_array($record))
       {
          $this->updtFields = array();
          foreach(array_keys(get_class_vars(get_class($this))) as $k)
          if (isset($record[$k]))
         {
          $this->$k = $record[$k];
          $this->updtFields[] = $k;
         }
      }   
   }//end of arrayToObject
      
   function toDebug($nl='<br>')
   {
       foreach(array_keys(get_class_vars(get_class($this))) as $k)
       echo "$k = [" . $this->$k . "]{$nl}";
    }//end of toDebug 
}

Now you can do really cool things. If you have a form like
<form action="" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="name" />
  <input type="text" name="phone" />
  <input type="submit" />
</form>

and you define your class like this
class Person extends Object{
  var $name; //same same as in the form
  var $phone;
}

when you submmit the form, you can get the data like

$person = new Person($_POST);

//everything in just one line,cool!! Also if you use pear db or adodb when you get data from the database you can do the same thing except use the $row that you get from the database. Remember to ask the result is associative mode.

This is my core Object for everthing I do and it works great.?>