How to "compact" vars into an object

In PHP you can do something like

$arr = compact('var1' , 'var2' , 'var3')

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and get an array filled with values of the specified variables.

Is there a similar function to build an Object out of variables?

Something like:

$obj = compactObj('var1' , 'var2' , 'var3')

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have you checked out PHP's serialize and unserialize functions?

see http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/en/function.serialize.php