PHP Class for javascript-like objects

README.md

Javascript like object literals. From http://www.phpied.com/javascript-style-object-literals-in-php/

extended_example.php

<?php

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

require('JSObject.php');

$foo = new JSObject(array(
	'bar' => array(
		1,
		2,
		3
	),
	'baz' => function($self)
	{
		return $self->__toString('var_export');
	}
));

$bar = new JSObject(array(
	'bar' => array(
		1,
		2,
		3
	),
	'baz' => function($self)
	{
		return $self->__toString('var_dump');
	}
));

echo $foo->baz();

echo $bar->baz();

$foo->foo = $bar;

echo $foo;

echo (int)isset($foo->baz2);

echo $foo(array(1,2,3));

echo $bar(array("a","b","c"));

JSObject.php

<?php

/**
 * JSObject 
 *
 * Class for creating object-literal-like contstructs in PHP
 */
 class JSObject {
 
 	/**
 	 * Constructor for creating the objects
 	 */
 	function __construct($members = array())
 	{
 		// Add the passed parameters to the object
 		foreach($members as $name => $value)
 		{
 			$this->$name = $value;
 		}
 		
 	}
 	
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 	
 	/** 
 	 * PHP magic method to facilitate dynamic methods
 	 *
 	 * @param string $name
 	 * @param array $args
 	 */
 	function __call($name, $args)
 	{
 		if(is_callable($this->$name))
 		{
 			//Add $this to the beginning of the args array
 			array_unshift($args, $this);
 			
 			//Call the dynamic function
 			return call_user_func_array($this->$name, $args);
 		}
 	}
	
	// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
	
	/**
	 * Prints out the contents of the object when used as a string
	 * 
	 * @return string
	 */
	function __toString()
	{
		$args = func_get_args();
		$method = ( ! empty($args)) ? $args[0] : "print_r";
		
		$output = '<pre>';
	
		if($method == "var_dump")
		{
			ob_start();
			var_dump($this);
			$output .= ob_get_contents();
			ob_end_clean();
		}
		else if($method == "var_export")
		{
			ob_start();
			var_export($this);
			$output .= ob_get_contents();
			ob_end_clean();
		}	
		else
		{
			$output .= print_r($this, TRUE);
		}
	
		return $output . '</pre>';
	}
	
	// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
	
	/**
	 * Constructor without the "new"
	 *
	 * @param array $members
	 */
	function __invoke($members=array())
	{
		return new JSObject($members);
	}
}

// End of JSObject.php

@cowboy Doesn't recursively applying the class to arrays remove any arrays from the object, though? I got the code from somewhere else, I'm still toying around in my head as to what I would use it for.