doctrine/instantiator

A small, lightweight utility to instantiate objects in PHP without invoking their constructors

2.1.0 2026-01-05 06:47 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.4

Requires (Dev)

• ext-pdo: *
• ext-phar: *
• doctrine/coding-standard: ^14
• phpbench/phpbench: ^1.2
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5.58

MIT

• Marco Pivetta

• constructor
• instantiate

README

This library provides a way of avoiding usage of constructors when instantiating PHP classes.

Installation

The suggested installation method is via composer:

composer require doctrine/instantiator

Usage

The instantiator is able to create new instances of any class without using the constructor or any API of the class itself:

$instantiator = new \Doctrine\Instantiator\Instantiator();

$instance = $instantiator->instantiate(\My\ClassName\Here::class);

Contributing

Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md contents if you wish to help out!

Credits

This library was migrated from ocramius/instantiator, which has been donated to the doctrine organization, and which is now deprecated in favour of this package.