Posted by Michael Sims on 10/05/62 11:05

Cere Davis wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Does anyone know of a painless way to convert a stdClass object to an
> associative array in php?

Just cast it:

$arr = (array) $stdClassInstance;

> Also, I wonder, is there a way to "flatten" associative arrays in php?
> So say:
> $b=new array(s=>"S")
> $a=new array(a=>"A",b=>$b)
>
> goes to:
> $z=flatten($a);
> z turns to:
> (a=>"A", b=>$b, s=>"S");

array_merge()

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge.php

HTH

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