luos/workflow/engine/classes/entities/EntityBase.php

<?php

class EntityBase
{

    /**
     * this function check if a field is in the data sent in the constructor
     * you can specify an array, and this function will use like alias
     */
    protected function validateField($field, $default = false)
    {
        $fieldIsEmpty = true;

        // this is a trick, if $fields is a string, $fields will be an array with
        // one element
        if (is_array($field)) {
            $fields = $field;
        } else {
            $fields = array();
            $fields [] = $field;
        }

        // if there are aliases for this field, evaluate all aliases and take the
        // first occurence
        foreach ($fields as $k => $f) {
            if (isset($this->temp [$f])) {
                $fieldIsEmpty = false;
                return $this->temp [$f];
            }
        }

        // field empty means the user has not sent a value for this Field, so we are
        // using the default value
        if ($fieldIsEmpty) {
            if ($default !== false) {
                return $default;
            }
        }
    }

    protected function validateRequiredFields($requiredFields = array())
    {
        foreach ($requiredFields as $k => $field) {
            if ($this->{$field} === null) {
                throw (new Exception("Field $field is required in " . get_class($this)));
                die();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Copy the values of the Entity to the array of aliases
     * The array of aliases must be defined.
     *
     * @return Array of alias with the Entity values
     */
    public function getAliasDataArray()
    {
        $aAlias = array();
        // get aliases from class
        $className = get_class($this);
        if (method_exists($className, 'GetAliases')) {
            $aliases = call_user_func(array(
                $className,
                'GetAliases'
            ));
            
            foreach ($this as $field => $value) {
                if (isset($aliases [$field])) {
                    // echo "Field exists in Aliases: " . $field . "\n";
                    // echo "Alias Name:" . $aliases[$field] . "\n";
                    // echo "Alias value:" . $value . "\n";
                    $aAlias [$aliases [$field]] = $value;
                }
            }
        }

        return $aAlias;
    }

    /**
     * Set the data from array of alias to Entity
     *
     * @param $aAliasData array of data of aliases
     */
    public function setAliasDataArray($aAliasData)
    {
        // get aliases from class
        $className = get_class($this);
        if (method_exists($className, 'GetAliases')) {
            $aliases = call_user_func(array(
                $className,
                'GetAliases'
            ));
            // $aliases = $className::GetAliases ();
            foreach ($this as $field => $value) {
                if (isset($aliases [$field])) {
                    $this->{$field} = $aAliasData [$aliases [$field]];
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Initialize object with values from $data.
     * The values from data use properties or alias array.
     *
     * @param $data
     */
    protected function initializeObject($data)
    {
        // get aliases from class
        $className = get_class($this);
        $aliases = array();
        $swAliases = false;
        if (method_exists($className, 'GetAliases')) {
            $aliases = call_user_func(array(
                $className,
                'GetAliases'
            ));
            // $aliases = $className::GetAliases ();
            $swAliases = true;
        }
        // use object properties or aliases to initialize
        foreach ($this as $field => $value) {
            if (isset($data [$field])) {
                $this->$field = $data [$field];
            } elseif ($swAliases && isset($aliases [$field]) && isset($data [$aliases [$field]])) {
                $this->$field = $data [$aliases [$field]];
            }
        }
    }

    public function serialize()
    {
        if (isset($this->temp)) {
            unset($this->temp);
        }
        return serialize($this);
    }

    public function unserialize($str)
    {
        $className = get_class($this);
        $data = unserialize($str);
        return new $className($data);
    }
}