Creating DTO Instances

You can create a DTO instance on many ways:

From arrays

$dto = new UserDTO([
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => '[e-mail]',
    'password' => 's3CreT!@1a2B'
]);

You can also use the fromArray static method:

$dto = UserDTO::fromArray([
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => '[e-mail]',
    'password' => 's3CreT!@1a2B'
]);

From JSON strings

$dto = UserDTO::fromJson('{"name": "John Doe", "email": "[e-mail]", "password": "s3CreT!@1a2B"}');

From Request objects

public function store(Request $request): JsonResponse
{
    $dto = UserDTO::fromRequest($request);
}

Starting in v3, you can also use the DTO as it was a Form Request class, so instead of manually creating the DTO instance, you can type-hint the DTO in the controller method, and it will be automatically created for you:

public function store(UserDTO $dto): JsonResponse
{
    // ...
}

From Eloquent Models

$user = new User([
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => '[e-mail]',
    'password' => 's3CreT!@1a2B'
]);

$dto = UserDTO::fromModel($user);

Beware that the fields in the $hidden property of the Model won't be used for the DTO.

From Artisan Commands

You have three ways of creating a DTO instance from an Artisan Command:

From the Command Arguments

<?php

use App\DTOs\UserDTO;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class CreateUserCommand extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'create:user {name} {email} {password}';

    protected $description = 'Create a new User';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return int
     *
     * @throws ValidationException
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $dto = UserDTO::fromCommandArguments($this);
    }
}

From the Command Options

<?php

use App\DTOs\UserDTO;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class CreateUserCommand extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'create:user { --name= : The user name }
                                        { --email= : The user email }
                                        { --password= : The user password }';

    protected $description = 'Create a new User';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return int
     *
     * @throws ValidationException
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $dto = UserDTO::fromCommandOptions($this);
    }
}

From the Command Arguments and Options

<?php

use App\DTOs\UserDTO;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class CreateUserCommand extends Command
{
    protected $signature = 'create:user {name}
                                        { --email= : The user email }
                                        { --password= : The user password }';

    protected $description = 'Create a new User';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return int
     *
     * @throws ValidationException
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $dto = UserDTO::fromCommand($this);
    }
}