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Package classistant
Short Description A fluent interface for generating PHP classes in PHP
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/samhastings/classistant
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Classistant
Classistant provides a fluent interface for generating PHP classes in PHP.
Why?
I needed a way of creating PHP classes on the fly, defining property and method names based on user input. Creating PHP code based on user input might sound like an awful idea, but it actually worked pretty well.
Requirements
Classistant requires PHP 7.0 or higher, both to run the code generator and to run the PHP it outputs. I’m afraid I have no plans to write a PHP 5.x version of this library.
Limitations
Currently, Classistant does not support any of the following features. I do however plan to implement these in the future.
- Anonymous class generation.
- Declaring a method as
abstractwithout also declaring the class as such will throw a fatal error in PHP. No such warning is thrown when trying to generate such code with Classistant. - Interface generation.
Installation
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Configuration
There’s not much this library offers in the way of configuration, apart from allowing you to customise the automatic indentation to match your personal preference.
By default, generated code is indented with four spaces. Override this as you wish with the following Config class properties.
Usage
A complete example of functionality is shown below. I’ve commented it throughout but the code will be self-explanatory.
All classes reside within the SamHastings\Classistant namespace.
A note on class resolution
The ::class constant, available on all classes, interfaces and traits as of PHP 5.5, provides a handy shortcut for fetching a fully-qualified class name. This will never contain a leading backslash, as a class name in a string is always treated by PHP as being relative to the global namespace when called with the new operator.
Whenever you’re using Classistant to generate namespaced classes, always prepend a backslash to arguments passed to ClassGenerator::extends(), ClassGenerator::implements() and ClassGenerator::use(). The same rules apply if you’re passing a class or interface name as a method parameter or return type. Otherwise, your generated code will generate a fatal error as PHP looks for said class names in the same namespace as your generated class.
