Question

I often do this when making classes and found it to be really bothersome, especially when I have classes with 20 or so properties.

is there a way to shorten this:

class SomeClass {
    public $property1, $property2, $property3;

    function __construct($property1, $property2, $property3) {
        $this->property1 = $property1;
        $this->property2 = $property2;
        $this->property3 = $property3;
    }
}

I really googled everything that hit my mind but haven’t found any results, so it probably isn’t possible?

If it isn’t possible to do it programmatically, is there a way I can make Eclipse PDT automatically write down this code for me on my request?

Answer 1

Put this into your constructor

$reflector = new ReflectionClass(__CLASS__);
$parameters = $reflector->getMethod(__FUNCTION__)->getParameters();
$variables = get_class_vars(__CLASS__);
foreach($parameters as $parameter)
{
    foreach ($variables as $variable => $value)
    {
        if ($parameter->name == $variable)
        {
            $this->$variable = ${$parameter->name};
            break;
        }
    }
}