Umm, not sure I understand the question completely... but following the
code below, why not just assign the object to a new variable? That'd
give you an exact copy with a lot less code...
--toby
Richard Lynch wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if there is an easy way to code a generic cloner at top
> > level of object inheritance tree so that all descendents can follow? Or by
> > nature the clone() function needs be implemented at final class
> > def.? Thanks a lot!
>
> You could probably use something like:
>
> function clone($whatever){
> $clone = $whatever;
> if (is_object($whatever)){
> while (list($var, $val) = each($whatever)){
> $clone->$var = clone($val);
> }
> }
> elseif (is_array($whatever)){
> while (list($var, $val) = each($whatever)){
> $clone[$var] = clone($val);
> }
> }
> else{
> $clone = $whatever;
> }
> return $clone;
> }
>
> No promises this can be made to work, much less to do what you want, but it
> might...
>
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