Hydrate an object (OOP PHP), What does it mean? [closed]

Question

Everything is in the title. i'm débutant in OOP(PHP), I thank you in advance.

I'm stuck on this since yesterday.

Answer 1

Hydrate an object means to 'fill' an object with some data.

Example:

You have a class, let's say, called 'dog'.

    class dog{
    public $name;
    public $gender;
}

$hau = new dog();

Hydrating would be:

$hau->name = 'Hau Hau'