TS_Class

PHP Class Definition with String defined named properties

Problem and solution

• Regular OOP does not allow to access properties values by name without hard coding the name of the property (even with ArrayAccess interface in PHP).
• There seems to be a need of a new class definition allowing to get instance properties values by name without ambiguity.
• TS_Class tries to solve it by coding property names directly within the class definition.
• This may facilitate server/client transfers and more generally object communications.
• This implementation is in PHP but may be useful for other languages

// Regular OOP (without accessors and mutators)
class Class1 {
    public $property1;
    public $property2;
}
// TS_Class OOP
class Class1 extends TS_Class {
    public static $property1="property1";
    public static $property2="property2";
}

Usage

class Class1 extends TS_Class {
    public static $property1="property1";
    public static $property2="property2";
}
//
$class1=new Class1();
// Property initialization
$class1->set(Class1::$property1, 1);
$class1->get(Class1::$property1);
// Properties initialization
$class1->arraySet( array(
  Class1::$property1=>1,
  Class1::$property2=>2
));

Limitation

The syntax requires more things to write compare to regular OOP
Public static property are reserved to TS_Class

Note : it may be safer to move from static properties to constants