Drift is a PHP library for mapping arbitrary data to PHP classes.
Drift is available on Packagist, so you can use composer;
composer require kevbradwick/drift
Say you have a class with private member variables like this;
namespace Application;
class Actor
{
/**
* @Drift\String()
*/
private $name;
/**
* @Drift\Int()
*/
private $age;
/**
* @Drift\Date(field="date_of_birth")
*/
private $dateOfBirth;
}And you have some data, possibly consumed from an API, that looks like this;
$data = [
'name' => 'Arnold Schwarzenegger',
'age' => 68,
'date_of_birth' => 'July 30, 1947'
]You can then use Drift\Mapper to create a new instance of the class,
initialised with the data.
use Drift\Mapper;
use Drift\Reader\AnnotationReader;
use Application\Actor;
$mapper = new Mapper(new AnnotationReader());
$mapper->setData($data);
$actor = $mapper->instantiate(Actor::class);In addition to annotations, you can specify mapping using Yaml or plain old php.
Full documentation can be found on the Wiki.