Question

Is there a way to instantiate a new PHP object in a similar manner to those in jQuery? I’m talking about assigning a variable number of arguments when creating the object. For example, I know I could do something like:

...
//in my Class
__contruct($name, $height, $eye_colour, $car, $password) {
...
}

$p1 = new person("bob", "5'9", "Blue", "toyota", "password");

But I’d like to set only some of them maybe. So something like:

$p1 = new person({
    name: "bob",
    eyes: "blue"});

Which is more along the lines of how it is done in jQuery and other frameworks. Is this built in to PHP? Is there a way to do it? Or a reason I should avoid it?

Answer 1

the best method to do this is using an array:

class Sample
{
    private $first  = "default";
    private $second = "default";
    private $third  = "default";

    function __construct($params = array())
    {
         foreach($params as $key => $value)
         {
              if(isset($this->$key))
              {
                  $this->$key = $value; //Update
              }
         }
    }
}

And then construct with an array

$data = array(
     'first' => "hello"
     //Etc
);
$Object = new Sample($data);