Turn array into class object

Well, you could cast it to stdClass:

$a = ['a' => 1, 'b' => 2];
$object = (object) $a;

But I guess you're not looking for that, you're probably trying to hydrate it.

In that case you could do something like this (assuming you're using public properties):

function castToObject(array $array, $className)
{
    $object = new $className();
    foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
        $object->$key = $val;
    }

    return $object;
}

Or if you're using get-set methods, change assignment line to:

$setter = 'set' . ucfirst($key);
$object->$setter($val);

Final implementation may vary. You have 3 options I can think about:

1. Make all your model classes extend some base class which implements this functionality.
2. Create a trait that implements it
3. Create a wrapper around your connection that does this (I suggest this)

Trait would look something like this:

trait FromArrayTrait
{
    public static function fromArray(array $array)
    {
        $myClass = get_class();
        $object  = new $myClass(); 

        foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
            $object->$key = $val;
        }

        return $object;
    }
}

And in each model you could just:

class MyModel
{
    use FromArrayTrait;

    public $a;
    public $b;
}

And then in your logic:

$myArray = ['a' => 5, 'b' => 10];
$myModel = MyModel::fromArray($myArray);