From 1536079fe384c0cdc8b3814b67318140dbc339ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Westerlund <victor@vlw.se>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:25:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add static method to create new `Database` instance
 from credentials (#22)

In this PR we add a new static method for creating a `vlw\Scaffold\Database\Database` instance from a set of provided credentials. This is of course not ideal and a better way to instance this class should be added in the future.

Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/vlw/scaffold/pulls/22
---
 src/Database/Database.php | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Database/Database.php b/src/Database/Database.php
index f050ee9..ec95a26 100644
--- a/src/Database/Database.php
+++ b/src/Database/Database.php
@@ -15,6 +15,39 @@
 		public const DATE_FORMAT     = "Y-m-d";
 		public const DATETIME_FORMAT = "Y-m-d H:i:s";
 
+		private const DEFAULT_HOSTNAME = "localhost";
+		private const DEFAULT_USERNAME = "www-data";
+		private const DEFAULT_PASSWORD = "";
+
+		/**
+		 * Create a new Database instance from credentials
+		 *
+		 * @param string $host
+		 * @param string $username
+		 * @param string $password
+		 * @param string $database
+		 * @return static
+		 */
+		public static function from_credentials(
+			?string $host = self::DEFAULT_HOSTNAME,
+			?string $username = self::DEFAULT_USERNAME,
+			?string $password = self::DEFAULT_PASSWORD,
+			string $database
+		) {
+			// Create key if it does not exist
+			if (!$_ENV["mariadb"]) {
+				$_ENV["mariadb"] = [];
+			}
+
+			// Set environment variables from credentials
+			$_ENV["mariadb"]["host"] = $host;
+			$_ENV["mariadb"]["user"] = $username;
+			$_ENV["mariadb"]["pass"] = $password;
+			$_ENV["mariadb"]["db"] = $database;
+
+			return new static();
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Wrap a new vlw/MySQL instance with credentials from project .env.ini
 		 */