Quickly create an empty stdClass object in PHP
For when you need the scaffolding of an empty PHP class object
I was working on a Laravel project and had to work with a Eloquent ORM object; I then needed to create an empty stdClass object.
There's a chance that a person is not known and being lazy I wanted to fill the form anyway with my Person object, so I needed a mockup of that object.
$person = (object) array_fill_keys(
array('firstname', 'lastname', 'email', 'photo'),
''
);
I'd say this solution is quick and dirty.. but frankly, it's not that dirty at all!
In short, this one-liner, creates an array with the 4 keys provided and gives them an empty value ('') then we just typecast it into an object. Done!