Merging Objects

[RancidLM]

hey all.. i got a simple question had a application i made and worked perfectly on the old PHP but now with the changes to OOP in php5 im getting a error
my problem is i have a function in a class and $this is my object (example: $this->username ..etc.)
my problem is that right now $this is empty and i have another object i pull from the cookies.. that has all the user info username id password etc.. this object is called $main_cookie it contains
$main_cookie->username ...password.. id..

any how my syntax use to just be
$this=$main_cookie;
now all the values and veriables are merged

but now a Error is returned so my main question is, is their a way to do this without doing this
$this->password=$main_cookie->password;
$this->username=$main_cookie->username;
....etc..

thanks 🙂

[mtmosier]

First thing to realize is that you were never merging the classes. You were replacing your current class with the new class. If they were different classes altogether then the resulting class would be the new class type, as well as have it's properties.

You should look at get_object_vars, and contemplate the possibility of doing $this->$varname.