PHP Builder

A fluent, object-oriented PHP code builder for programmatically generating classes, interfaces, traits, and enums — complete with imports, attributes, typed members, property hooks, and PHPDoc.

use BradieTilley\Builder\PhpArgument;
use BradieTilley\Builder\PhpClass;
use BradieTilley\Builder\PhpMethod;
use BradieTilley\Builder\Types\PhpGeneric;

$class = new PhpClass(
    namespace: 'App\\Models',
    name: 'Post',
    extends: 'App\\Models\\Model',
);

$class->methods[] = new PhpMethod(
    name: 'setTags',
    args: [
        new PhpArgument(
            type: PhpGeneric::array(value: 'string'),
            name: 'tags',
            defaultValue: '[]',
        ),
    ],
    return: 'static',
    lines: [
        '$this->tags()->sync($tags);',
        'return $this;',
    ],
);

echo $class->toPhp();

Documentation

• Introduction
• Installation
• Classes
• Interfaces
• Traits
• Enums
• Methods & Arguments
• Properties & Hooks
• Types
• Imports & Aliasing
• Attributes & Constants
• Formatting
• Compatibility

Requirements

• PHP 8.5
• bradietilley/php-data (pulled in automatically)

Quick start

composer require bradietilley/php-builder

use BradieTilley\Builder\PhpClass;
use BradieTilley\Builder\PhpMethod;

$class = new PhpClass(
    namespace: 'App\\Support',
    name: 'Greeter',
    methods: [
        new PhpMethod(
            name: 'hello',
            return: 'string',
            lines: ["return 'hello';"],
        ),
    ],
);

file_put_contents('Greeter.php', $class->toPhp());

See Installation and Classes for the full walkthrough.