json_decode

stdClass

$json = '{ "foo": "bar", "number": 42 }';
$stdInstance = json_decode($json);


//Example with StdClass
echo get_class($stdInstance) . ':' . PHP_EOL;
echo $stdInstance->foo . PHP_EOL; //"bar"
echo $stdInstance->number . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;


//Example with associative array
echo 'associative array:' . PHP_EOL;
$array = json_decode($json, true);
echo $array['foo'] . PHP_EOL; //"bar"
echo $array['number'] . PHP_EOL; //42

stdClass

$array = array(
    'Property1'=>'hello',
    'Property2'=>'world',
    'Property3'=>'again',
);

$obj = (object) $array;
echo get_class($obj) . ':' . PHP_EOL;
echo $obj->Property3;

$array_user = array();
$array_user["name"] = "smith john";
$array_user["username"] = "smith";
$array_user["id"] = "1002";
$array_user["email"] = "smith@nomail.com";

$obj_user = new stdClass;
$obj_user->name = "smith john";
$obj_user->username = "smith";
$obj_user->id = "1002";
$obj_user->email = "smith@nomail.com";