PDO: Fetch class option to send fields to constructor as array - php

Question

I am wondering whether or not it is possible to elegantly map the results of a PDO query to an array member in a class rather than have them floating about as public properties of that object.
Say I have the (condensed) following:
class DBObject {
protected
$record = array();
function __construct(array $record) {
if(!empty($record)) {
$this->loadRecord($record);
}
}
}
Ideally, I want to call the constructor with an array of values passed from the database, rather than use __set or any other weird methods. So using PDO's existing API would be great.
My rough get_all function at the moment has got this far:
static function get_all() {
$class = get_called_class();
$results = DB::factory()->query('SELECT * FROM ' . $class . ' ORDER BY ID');
$results->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_CLASS|PDO::FETCH_PROPS_LATE, $class);
return $results;
}
NB: I'm running PHP 5.3 and MySQL through PDO, and already know this problem is solveable using __set, but I explicitly want to avoid using it in favour of something more performant.

Answer 1

You don't need to pass arguments to a constructor to make a class with private members using PDO::FETCH_CLASS. You can do something like this:
<?php
class Songs
{
private $artist;
private $title;
public function __construct()
{
}
public function get_artist()
{
return $this->artist;
}
public function get_title()
{
return $this->title;
}
private function set_artist($artist)
{
$this->artist = $artist;
}
private function set_title($title)
{
$this->title = $title;
}
}
I'm actually doing that on a demo site that I built. It works just fine with PDO::FETCH_CLASS. By default, FETCH_CLASS creates objects by populating the fields BEFORE the constructor. Think of it as bypassing the constructor. And it will do this with private members.
If you'd rather pass arguments to the constructor you can do your query like this:
$obj = $statement->fetchALL(PDO::FETCH_CLASS|PDO::FETCH_PROPS_LATE, 'Songs', $params);
In that case your constructor would look like this:
public function __construct($params)
{
$this->artist = $params[0]['artist'];
$this->title= $params[0]['title'];
}

Answer 2

Removed previous code
Right, can't you do something like this:
class DBObject {
protected $record = array();
function __construct($record = null) {
if(null === $record){
$obj_vars = get_object_vars($this);
$cls_vars = get_class_vars(get_class($this));
$this->$record = array_diff_key($obj_vars, $cls_vars);
}else{
$this->record = $record;
}
}
}
The problem with this however is that the values are still available as public members.
But what it will do is compare 'pre-defined' (class) members to the actual (object) members.
Since PDO will create new members in the object you can use array_diff_key to get the 'new' members.
Yes, this will still not pass them through your constructor.

Answer 3

How about using magic __set() method:
<?php
class MyClass
{
protected $record = array();
function __set($name, $value) {
$this->record[$name] = $value;
}
}
$pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db", 'user', 'password');
$results = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM table');
$results->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, 'MyClass');
PHP will call this magic method for every non-existent property passing in its name and value.