<?php 

namespace Model;

class Model {
    protected function ConvertToDateTime(&$field) {
        if($field) {
            $field = new \DateTime($field);
            if($field === false || $field->getTimestamp() == 0) {
                $field = null;
            }
        }
    }

    public function __construct($data) {
        $class = get_class($this);
        foreach($data as $key => $val) {
            if(property_exists($class, $key)) {
                $this->$key =  $val;
            }
        }
    }

    public function url_slug($text) {
        $text = strtolower($text);
        $text = preg_replace('/\b([a-z]{1,3})\b/u', '', $text);
        $text = preg_replace('/[^\w_\+\s]/', '', $text);
        $text = preg_replace('/\s+/', '-', $text);
        return trim(strtolower($text), '-');
    }
}