Setting a value inside an array designated by a named property

Question

If I have the following code:

$a = new stdClass();
$property = 'test';

$a->$property = array();

How can I set a value inside the $a->$property array? The following doesn't work, because [] is applied on $property, not on $a->$property:

$a->$property['key'] = 'value';

Is referencing the property the only way of doing this?

$array = &$a->$property;
$array['key'] = 'value';

mvdnes · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-22 23:18:19Z

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You can reference it as $a->{$property}['key'] = 'value';.

answered Mar 22, 2012 at 23:18

mvdnes

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