bradietilley/php-data

A lightweight, framework-agnostic Data Transfer Object library for PHP with first-class Laravel integration.

v0.0.1 2026-07-23 09:43 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/framework: ^13.0
• laravel/pint: ^1.18
• orchestra/testbench: ^11.0
• pestphp/pest: ^4.0
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.0

Suggests

• laravel/framework: Enables model/collection/paginator hydration and config() integration.
• nesbot/carbon: Enables automatic Carbon date casting in from()/toArray().

MIT

• Bradie Tilley

• data
• object
• laravel
• dto
• Data Transfer Object

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-23 13:04 UTC

README

A lightweight, framework-agnostic Data Transfer Object (DTO) library for PHP, with first-class Laravel integration.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at bradietilley.dev/php-data.

Installation

composer require bradietilley/php-data

use BradieTilley\Data\Data;

class ProductData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(
        public string $title,
        public int $reviews,
        public float $rating,
        public CategoryData $category,
    ) {}
}

class CategoryData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(
        public string $title,
        public bool $featured,
    ) {}
}

// Hydrate from an array, model, DTO, stdClass or JSON string, with automatic casting
$product = ProductData::from([
    'title' => 'Denim Jeans',
    'reviews' => '5',
    'rating' => '4.5',
    'category' => [
        'name' => 'Pants',
        'featured' => false,
    ],
]);

// …or construct explicitly with named arguments
$product = ProductData::make(
    title: 'Widget',
    reviews: '5',
    rating: '4.5',
    category: [
        'name' => 'Pants',
        'featured' => false,
    ],
);

$product->category; // CategoryData<[ 'title'  => 'Pants', 'featured' => false ]>

// Serialize
$product->toArray(); // ['title' => 'Widget', 'reviews' => 5, 'rating' => 4.5, 'category' => ['title'  => 'Pants', 'featured' => false]]

See the documentation for hydration, serialization, attributes, and framework-agnostic usage.

Credits

• Bradie Tilley