How do I dynamically update a classes properties?

[Samishii23]

So I have a data class that has a bunch of properties that reflect a Business' information, like address, phone, etc.. I have the constructor setting all the information via $id being passed, which is used to pull data from the DB.
Then I have a method, set($id), that will update those properties with a new set of information gathered from the database.

The code is kinda long, and makes me annoyed cause I have 8 lines of code that just set each property individually. I don't like it.

I feel like a bad coder doing this so I wanna know if theres a way to dynamically loop through each properly to set it rather then set each separately.

Quickie mock up:

foreach ($dbdata as $k => $v) {
   $this->{$k} = $v; }

I have no idea if that works. I thought I seen an example like that a little while ago, but I can't find it again. So. I wanna know how to do something like this.

[Dormilich]

do you want to edit the properties "manually" or update them from DB? for the latter there are a couple of PDO fetch options that can do that.

[Samishii23]

Basicly the properties will be named the same as the database table columns. So I suppose the latter would work? Though if its possible to do outside of PDO functions, then I would like to know how to do both. :)

[Markus]

Sounds like you're building something in the vein of ORM (Object-Relational Mapping). There are libraries out there for PHP that will do this for you out-of-the-box, for example, Doctrine.

Mark.