Laravel DTO

Laravel integration for php-collective/dto.

Installation

composer require php-collective/laravel-dto

The service provider will be auto-discovered.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="PhpCollective\LaravelDto\DtoServiceProvider"

This creates config/dto.php with the following options:

return [
    'config_path' => config_path(),     // Where DTO config files are located
    'output_path' => app_path('Dto'),   // Where to generate DTOs
    'namespace' => 'App\\Dto',          // Namespace for generated DTOs
];

Usage

1. Create your DTO configuration

Create config/dto.xml (or config/dtos.xml to avoid conflicts):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dtos xmlns="php-collective-dto">
    <dto name="User">
        <field name="id" type="int"/>
        <field name="name" type="string"/>
        <field name="email" type="string"/>
    </dto>
</dtos>

2. Generate DTOs

php artisan dto:generate

Options:

• --dry-run - Preview changes without writing files
• -v - Verbose output

3. Use your DTOs

use App\Dto\UserDto;

$user = new UserDto();
$user->setId(1);
$user->setName('John Doe');
$user->setEmail('john@example.com');

return response()->json($user->toArray());

Or create from an array:

$user = UserDto::createFromArray([
    'id' => 1,
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => 'john@example.com',
]);

Supported Config Formats

The package supports multiple config file formats:

• dto.xml or dtos.xml - XML format
• dto.yml / dto.yaml or dtos.yml / dtos.yaml - YAML format
• dtos.php - PHP format (use dtos.php to avoid conflict with config/dto.php)
• dto/ subdirectory with multiple files

License

MIT