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kevbradwick/drift
=================

A lightweight PHP library for mapping data to PHP classes

1.2.0(9y ago)122MITPHPPHP >=5.6

Since Feb 20Pushed 9y agoCompare

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Drift
=====

[](#drift)

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---

Drift is a PHP library for mapping arbitrary data to PHP classes.

### Installation

[](#installation)

Drift is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/kevbradwick/drift), so you can use composer;

```
composer require kevbradwick/drift

```

### Usage

[](#usage)

Say you have a class with private member variables like this;

```
namespace Application;

class Actor
{
    /**
     * @Drift\String()
     */
    private $name;

    /**
     * @Drift\Int()
     */
    private $age;

    /**
     * @Drift\Date(field="date_of_birth")
     */
    private $dateOfBirth;
}
```

And you have some data, possibly consumed from an API, that looks like this;

```
$data = [
    'name' => 'Arnold Schwarzenegger',
    'age' => 68,
    'date_of_birth' => 'July 30, 1947'
]
```

You can then use `Drift\Mapper` to create a new instance of the class, initialised with the data.

```
use Drift\Mapper;
use Drift\Reader\AnnotationReader;
use Application\Actor;

$mapper = new Mapper(new AnnotationReader());
$mapper->setData($data);

$actor = $mapper->instantiate(Actor::class);
```

In addition to annotations, you can specify mapping using Yaml or plain old php.

Full documentation can be found on the [Wiki](https://github.com/kevbradwick/drift/wiki).

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~86 days

Total

4

Last Release

3522d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/491739?v=4)[Kevin Bradwick](/maintainers/kevbradwick)[@kevbradwick](https://github.com/kevbradwick)

---

Top Contributors

[![kevbradwick](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/491739?v=4)](https://github.com/kevbradwick "kevbradwick (46 commits)")

---

Tags

datamapperdata mapper

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