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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:27:07+00:00

I’m working on a framework in PHP, part of this frameworks job is to

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I’m working on a framework in PHP, part of this frameworks job is to write SQL code to generate new MySQL columns.

What is the most elegant way to pass in a bunch of parameters for a column and then turn that into SQL code? As an example here is some YAML I have, that specifies parameters for creating a varchar column:

- type: character         data-type:             type: varchar             length: 255             decimals: null             unsigned: null             zerofill: null             collate: utf8_unicode_ci             character-set: utf8             binary: false             spatial-type: null             values: null         nullify: true         default: null         increment: false         unique: false         primary: false         comment: This is a small general text field.         format: default         storage: default

My design constraints are as follows:

  1. The YAML cannot contain any SQL syntax
  2. The PHP code must be as concise as possible.
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  1. I recommend you make a class Column that takes, as a constructor argument, an array that can define the various configuration points you want. The ones that don’t matter in each particular case you just don’t define.

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