Creating a doc with pre-defined array

[Deleted user]

I know you can create a doc like so:

$new_doc = new stdClass();
$new_doc->title = "Some content";

And then one by one, add new items to the array like we see above with title. But if I already have an array that I want to add to the doc stored into let's say $doc_array, how would I do that?

[Alexis Côté]

It seems unclear to me. Just to be sure, you're trying to add predefined key-value pairs stored into an array to an existing document of type object?

Example :

<?php

$doc = $client->getDoc('existingId');
$newKeyValue = array('prop1'=>'value1','prop2'=>'value2');

//Merge existing values

$docAsArray = (array)$doc; //Make it resursive it you have multiple levels
$newDoc = array_merge_recursive($docAsArray,$newKeyValue);

[Deleted user]

@popojargo I want to create a new document, with a predefined array of data already,

I want a document to look like so:

{
    "_id": "whatever-is-generated",
    "name": "My Name",
    "email": "[e-mail]"
}

So instead of doing:

$new_doc = new stdClass();
$new_doc->name = "My Name";
$new_doc->email = "[e-mail]"

I want to do something like:

$new_array = array("name" => "My name", "email" => "[e-mail]");

[Alexis Côté]

Simply do this

$new_doc = (object)array("name" => "My name", "email" => "[e-mail]");

[Alexis Côté]

@bgold0 You can close this issue if it's resolved since I'm not an admin on this repository. If you have any request, feel free to create an issue on my fork since this repo si mostly inactive.

[Deleted user]

Thank you @popojargo this is exactly what I was looking for.

[Deleted user]

PS, @popojargo - Thank you for forking this repo and keeping it up to date. We (or I) really appreciate it.