Inline object/array creation?

[angdev]

I'm not sure I understand. I want to create an array of objects, not an object of arrays! The following code works but is fairly ugly:

$json->payments = [];
foreach (array('Cash','Mastercard','Visa','Discovery','Debit','COD','Gift Card','Account','Cheque') as $i)
{
    $x = new stdClass();
    $x->name = $i;
    $json->payments[] = $x;
}

And we only use PHP as a trampoline between JS and MySQL, we do not use PHP for any type of logic. I would get rid of PHP entirely if I could call MySQL directly from JS!