The PHP stdClass() is something that isn’t well documented but i will try to shed some light into the matter. stdClass is a default PHP object which has no predefined members. The name stdClass is used internally by Zend and is reserved. So that means that you cannot define a class named stdClass in your PHP code.

It can be used to manually instantiate generic objects which you can then set member variables for, this is useful for passing objects to other functions or methods which expect to take an object as an argument. An even more likely usage is casting an array to an object which takes each value in the array and adds it as a member variable with the name based on the key in the array.

Here’s an example below that converts an array to an object below. This method is called Type Casting.

In some cases you may need to investigate which classes are loaded in the current scope. You can do it pretty fine with the get_declared_classes() function. This function will return an array of currently available classes.

Customizing Magento could be difficult. Here is an easy way to display any block in any template file that cannot be loaded with $this->getChildHtml().

If you’ve just started working with Magento, you’ll find that figuring out which class is loaded in the current template file very difficult. Here’s a little snippet that helps you figure it out. Just place the following into any .phtml template files:

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Twitter is an awesome service! I use it on a daily basis and have grown addicted to it. Posting to twitter VIA an application is something that I’m sure you’ll need to do at some point. Using this simple little script below, you can post updates to twitter accounts fairly easily. Don’t forget to add your username, password and message below.

The popular URL shortening service TinyURL provides a quick API that creates TinyURL’s on the fly. Here’s how you can access that API.

Make a call to our function above, and it outputs a new tinyURL.

Adding Google Adsense to your blog’s post is easy. No need to download and add another plugin to your WordPress installation. Just follow these easy instructions! First, you have to add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file.

Saved the functions.php file and upload it. Now you can embed an Adsense unit into your posts easily by pasting the following code in the editor, in html mode:

Easily list the most recent comments in a sidebar or a tab. The code below will list the 10 most recent comments. You can change the number displayed by changing the value of the variable, $intCommentLimit to list more or less comments

Here’s a quick function to generate a password. All you have to do is call it passing the length of your required password as an argument.

This is a function I use to display the ellipses when I want to truncate and display a summary of a larger body of text.