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I have an array of stdClass objects and I want to build a comma separated list using one specific field of all those stdClass objects. My array looks like this:

$obj1 = stdClass Object ( [foo] => 4 [bar] => 8 [foo-bar] => 15 );
$obj2 = stdClass Object ( [foo] => 16 [bar] => 23 [foo-bar] => 42 );
$obj3 = stdClass Object ( [foo] => 76 [bar] => 79 [foo-bar] => 83 );

$a = array(1=>$obj1 , 2=>$obj2 , 3=>$obj3);

And I want to implode on foo of all the stdClass objects in that array to create a comma separated list. So the desired result is:

4,16,76

Is there any way to do this with implode (or some other mystery function) without having to put this array of objects through a loop?

mickmackusa
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ubiquibacon
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You could use array_map() and implode()...

$a = array_map(function($obj) { return $obj->foo; }, 
               array(1=>$obj1 , 2=>$obj2 , 3=>$obj3));

$a = implode(", ", $a);
alex
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  • This works and is cleaner than a loop, unfortunately I am finding that a foreach loop performs better. I'm getting similar results with array_reduce :( Guess I'll just stick with the foreach loop. – ubiquibacon May 31 '12 at 15:02
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With PHP 7.0+ you can use array_column for this.

echo implode(',', array_column($a, 'foo'));
Don't Panic
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This is actually the best way I've found, it doesn't seem to be answered here properly as the array of objects should be able to handle dynamic size.

$str = implode(',', array_map(function($x) { return $x->foo; }, $a));
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You can actually set __toString() on the class as suggested by Ray, but you don't need to iterate through the array first. implode() will directly call the __toString() function of the objects (which also works with associative arrays, btw).

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A very neat solution for this is the array_reduce() function, that reduces an array to a single value:

$str = array_reduce($a, function($v, $w) {
    if ($v) $v .= ',';
    return $v . $w->foo;
});
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echo implode("','",(array)$data->stdArray);
alex
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Jason
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I guess the easiest way would be to create an ID indexed array and then call implode on array_keys:

$a = array();
$a[4] = stdClass Object ( [foo] => 4 [bar] => 8 [foo-bar] => 15 );
$a[16] = stdClass Object ( [foo] => 16 [bar] => 23 [foo-bar] => 42 );
$a[76] = stdClass Object ( [foo] => 76 [bar] => 79 [foo-bar] => 83 );

echo implode(', ', array_keys($a));
shadyyx
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0

No, the best you can do is iterate through, call tostring() on the object and put the results in a new array to call implode on.

Ray
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If it's a 1-level object, this worked for me.

function implodeObjValues($glue, $obj) { 
    $s = "";
    foreach($obj[1] as $n=>$v) {
        $s .= $glue . $v;
    }
    return substr($s,strlen($glue));
}

function implodeObjLabels($glue, $obj) { 
    $s = "";
    foreach($obj[1] as $n=>$v) {
        $s .= $glue . $n;
    }
    return substr($s,strlen($glue));
}

Could include a by-type multi-level process, but I didn't need that yet. Hope this helps.

Handy for converting MySQL object back to array.

$db = new mysqli("localhost",$usr,$pw,$db);
$row = $db->query("SHOW TABLES");
$a = implodeObjValues("|",$row);
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