Is it possible with Doctrine2 to use a method which creates an entity out of an array?
I mean somehow Doctrine2 converts the database return values to objects. Including children.
If it is possible a link and en example would be very helpful. Thanks.
Doctrine's DBAL and ORM layers are just abstractions over PDO. When specifying PDO::FETCH_CLASS as the fetch_argument, the PDOStatement::fetchAll() method will fetch the returned result set into the specified class.
See Example #4 Instantiating a class for each result in the docs for further information.
I assume that this is what Doctrine2 does under the hood, and as such it's a PDO feature, not a Doctrine2 feature.
As Cerad pointed out in the comment above, since Doctrine2 Entities are just POPOs, you'd have to perhaps create a factory, pass data into a constructor or some other method to fill your entity from an array.
I've done something similar to the following in the past:
<?php
class State
{
private $name;
private $abbreviation;
public function fromArray(array $data)
{
foreach ($data as $prop => $value) {
if (!property_exists($this, $prop)) {
throw new UnexpectedValueException(
sprintf('Property %s does not exist in State', $prop)
);
}
$this->{$prop} = $value;
}
}
}
$state = new State();
$state->fromArray([
'name' => 'Arizona',
'abbreviation' => 'AZ',
]);
var_dump($state);
This yields:
object(State)#1 (2) {
["name":"State":private]=>
string(7) "Arizona"
["abbreviation":"State":private]=>
string(2) "AZ"
}
Hope this helps :)
