PHP - best way to initialize an object with a large number of parameters and default values

Question

I\'m designing a class that defines a highly complex object with a ton (50+) of mostly optional parameters, many of which would have defaults (eg: $type = \'foo\'; $width

Answer 1

Just a little improvement on Daff's first solution to support object properties that may have a null default value and would return FALSE to the isset() condition:

 $val) {
            $name = '_' . $key;
            if(property_exists(get_called_class(),$name))
                $this->{$name} = $val;
            }
        }
    }
}

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