README

Filters Doctrine enitites and transformers them into arrays. Examples speak for themselves, so read on.

Installation

$ composer require mario-legenda/entity-filter

Basic usage

Let's say we have a User entity that has 25 fields that describe a certain user, like name, lastname, social security number etc. If you want only 10 of those fields, you would have to manually call each and every method and place them in some variables. Code is as follows...

$user = new User();

$name = $user->getName()
$lastname = $user->getLastname();
... 8 remaining fields

This creates some ugly code. If you wish to put the values of those fields in an array, the code is even uglier.

$user = new User();

$userData['name'] = $user->getName();
$userData['lastname'] = $user->getName();
... 8 remainig fields

Now, you could say that you can query the database with DQL, but in some cases, you need a clean entity if, for example, you wish to update the User to the database. This is the situtation where this tool comes in handy.

$user = new User();
$entityFilter = new EntityFilter();

$filtered = $entityFilter
               ->setEntity($user)
               ->configure(array(
                   'id', 'name', 'lastname', 'ssn'
               ))
               ->setDataVar('user')
               ->getFiltered();

$filtered is an array that holds id, name and other values that you ask from it. EntityFilter::setDataVar() sets the value of an array key that holds the array with the specified values from the User entity. Default is data.

I hope that someone finds this helpfull.