<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Objects</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Types" HREF="language.types.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Arrays" HREF="language.types.array.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Resource" HREF="language.types.resource.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.types.array.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Cap. 6. Types</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.types.resource.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.types.object" >Objects</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="language.types.object.init" >Object Initialization</A ></H2 ><P > To initialize an object, you use the <VAR CLASS="literal" >new</VAR > statement to instantiate the object to a variable. <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN1251" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#007700">class </font><font color="#0000BB">foo<br /></font><font color="#007700">{<br /> function </font><font color="#0000BB">do_foo</font><font color="#007700">()<br /> {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"Doing foo."</font><font color="#007700">; <br /> }<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$bar </font><font color="#007700">= new </font><font color="#0000BB">foo</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$bar</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">do_foo</font><font color="#007700">();<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > For a full discussion, please read the section <A HREF="language.oop.html" >Classes and Objects</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="language.types.object.casting" >Converting to object</A ></H2 ><P > If an object is converted to an object, it is not modified. If a value of any other type is converted to an object, a new instance of the <VAR CLASS="literal" >stdClass</VAR > built in class is created. If the value was null, the new instance will be empty. For any other value, a member variable named <VAR CLASS="literal" >scalar</VAR > will contain the value. <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN1260" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$obj </font><font color="#007700">= (object) </font><font color="#DD0000">'ciao'</font><font color="#007700">;<br />echo </font><font color="#0000BB">$obj</font><font color="#007700">-></font><font color="#0000BB">scalar</font><font color="#007700">; </font><font color="#FF8000">// outputs 'ciao'<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.types.array.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.types.resource.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Arrays</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.types.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Resource</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >