Builders

Builders

Out of the box, Phactory is quite limited. The objects it creates are simple stdClass objects which work well for demo's, but aren't what you want when your app is using a sophisticated ORM. Fortunately, Phactory provides an easy way to override the default behaviour.

First create your own builder class like so:

<?php

class CustomBuilder extends \Phactory\DefaultBuilder
{
	protected function to_object($name, $blueprint)
	{
		$object = new CustomObject($name);

		foreach ($blueprint as $key => $value)
			$object->$key = $value;
		
		return $object;
	}
}

Then with that in place, tell Phactory to use it:

<?php

Phactory::builder(new CustomBuilder());

All blueprints will now be created using the CustomBuilder class.