# How to convert object data to array in cakephp 3?

**URL:** https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-convert-object-data-to-array-in-cakephp-3/1908
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**Created:** [January 23, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-convert-object-data-to-array-in-cakephp-3/1908 "2017-01-23T12:38:11Z")
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### Author: ![SATHISH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@SATHISH](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/SATHISH)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-convert-object-data-to-array-in-cakephp-3/1908/1 "2017-01-23T12:38:11Z")

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Hi,

$attributeList = $this-\>Attributes-\>find(‘all’)  
-\>select()  
-\>contain([‘OptionsAttributes’ =\> function($q){  
return $q;  
}])-\>toArray();

How to convert object data to array?  
I can convert using  
`$results = Hash::extract($attributeList, '{n}');`  
But I didn’t get contain([‘OptionsAttributes’]) value in array type.  
How to convert it in an array?

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### Author: ![AdrianoMoura](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/adrianomoura/32/284_2.png) [@AdrianoMoura](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/AdrianoMoura)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/how-to-convert-object-data-to-array-in-cakephp-3/1908/2 "2017-01-23T13:09:10Z")

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the easy way …

$array = (array) $yourObject;  
or  
$array = json\_decode(json\_encode($nested\_object), true);