A Simple Method to Make a Data Mapper in PHP

By this package we can map data from one to another. For example we can create a time mapper for map 1m to 1 minute and vise versa, or map 3d to 3 days. Thereby when we have 1m, we will be able to reach 1 minute and so on.

Install

 $ composer require a-afsharfarnia/data-mapper

How to use

After installing the package, the only thing you have to do is creating your mapper classes. Imagine you want to have following mappers in your projects:

• Time Mapper (e.g. map 1m to 1 minute and vise versa)
• Language Mapper (e.g. map en to english and vise versa)

So, you must create a class for each mapper. You can have a look on TimeMapper and LanguageMapper classes as a sample in /src/samples.

As you can see in samples, each mapper class is extended of Afsharfarnia\DataMapper\mappers\Mapper. Then in each mapper class you must define a $mapper static property which includes mapper data.

    public static $mapper = [
        "1m" => "1minute",
        "30m" => "30minutes",
        "1h" => "1hour",
        "8h" => "8hours",
        "12h" => "12hours",
        "1d" => "1day",
        "3d" => "3days",
        "1w" => "1week",
        "1M" => "1month"
    ];

After creating your mapper classes, you can use them in your projects as following:

    echo TimeMapper::mapData("1m");               --> result: 1 minute   (to map)
    echo TimeMapper::unmapData("12hours");        --> result: 12h        (to unmap)