Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By : Doug Bierer
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

PHP 7 comes with a myriad of new features and great tools to optimize your code and make your code perform faster than in previous versions. Most importantly, it allows you to maintain high traffic on your websites with low-cost hardware and servers through a multithreading web server. This book demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. We also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This book also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an array to object hydrator


The Hydrator pattern is a variation of the Data Transfer Object design pattern. Its design principle is quite simple: moving data from one place to another. In this illustration, we will define classes to move data from an array to an object.

How to do it...

  1. First, we define a Hydrator class that is able to use getters and setters. For this illustration we will use Application\Generic\Hydrator\GetSet:

    namespace Application\Generic\Hydrator;
    class GetSet
    {
      // code
    }
  2. Next, we define a hydrate() method, which takes both an array and an object as arguments. It then calls the setXXX() methods on the object to populate it with values from the array. We use get_class() to determine the object's class, and then get_class_methods() to get a list of all methods. preg_match() is used to match the method prefix and its suffix, which is subsequently assumed to be the array key:

    public static function hydrate(array $array, $object)
    {
      $class = get_class($object);
      ...