PHP Accessing array values using Object Operator with key [duplicate]

Question

Say I have an array like the following:

$arr = array(
    'id' => 123,
    'title' => 'Example Title',
);

How come I cannot access the values using PHP's object operator (->)? In theory, I should be able to do $arr->title but that doesn't work and I have to access it as $arr['title'] instead.

I've been reading plenty of examples of people using the object operator however it's not returning anything but a null value.

Has something changed in recent versions of PHP or am I misunderstanding the examples given?

3v4l.org/N8jE4 (you can check older version output as well by clicking eol versions option in the example link) — Death-is-the-real-truth
– Death-is-the-real-truth, Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 6:14
In theory, I should be able to do $arr->title Where you read this , that when you create a array you will can access as object ? — Niklesh Raut
– Niklesh Raut, Commented Feb 28, 2020 at 6:18

Muhammad Kamran · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-28 06:15:50Z

4

this code work 100% fine

$arr = (object) array(
    'id' => 123,
    'title' => 'Example Title',
);

echo $arr->title;

answered Feb 28, 2020 at 6:15

Muhammad Kamran

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Spedwards Over a year ago

Ahh, I was unaware I had to cast the array to an object. Thank you.

franc Over a year ago

Ahhh, I was unaware that some of my arrays must have been objects, and the object operator worked. "Suddenly" it stopped working and I wondered why. Thanks!

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