Creating Varien Object & Collection from any Array data

Varien_Object and Varien_Collection are the parent/super class for most of the Magento Models and Collections respectively.
The path for Varien_Object is lib/Varien/Object & for Varien_Collection is lib/Varien/Data/Collection.php.
This article shows how you can create new Varien objects and collections from any array or object data you have.
Here is the code:

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/**  * Creating new varien collection  * for given array or object  *  * @param array|object $items   Any array or object  * @return Varien_Data_Collection $collection  */ public function getVarienDataCollection($items) {     $collection = new Varien_Data_Collection();     foreach ($items as $item) {         $varienObject = new Varien_Object();         $varienObject->setData($item);         $collection->addItem($varienObject);     }     return $collection; }