Johannes Schmitt

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PHP Collection

This library adds basic collections for PHP.

Collections can be seen as more specialized arrays for which certain contracts are guaranteed.

Supported Collections:

  • Sequences
    • Keys: numerical, consequentially increasing, no gaps
    • Values: anything, duplicates allowed
    • Classes: Sequence, SortedSequence
  • Maps
    • Keys: strings or objects, duplicate keys not allowed
    • Values: anything, duplicates allowed
    • Classes: Map, ObjectMap (not yet implemented)
  • Sets
    • Keys: not meaningful
    • Values: objects, or scalars, each value is guaranteed to be unique (see Set usage below for details)
    • Classes: Set

General Characteristics:

  • Collections are mutable (new elements may be added, existing elements may be modified or removed). Specialized immutable versions may be added in the future though.
  • Equality comparison between elements are always performed using the shallow comparison operator (===).
  • Sorting algorithms are unstable, that means the order for equal elements is undefined (the default, and only PHP behavior).

Installation

PHP Collection can easily be installed via composer

composer require phpcollection/phpcollection

or add it to your composer.json file.

Usage

Collection classes provide a rich API.

Sets

In a Set each value is guaranteed to be unique. The Set class supports objects, and scalars as value. Equality is determined via the following steps.

Equality of Objects

  1. If an object implements ObjectBasics, equality is determined by the equals() method.
  2. If an object has an external handler like the DateTime that was registered via ObjectBasicsHandlerRegistry::registerHandlerFor, equality is determined by that handler?s equals() method.
  3. If none of the above is applicable, equality is determined by identity $a === $b.

Equality of Scalars

Scalar are considered equal if $a === $b is true.
$set = new Set();
$set->add(new \DateTime('today'));
$set->add(new \DateTime('today'));

var_dump(count($set)); // int(1) -> the same date is not added twice

foreach ($set as $date) {
    var_dump($date);
}

$set->all();
$set->addSet($otherSet);
$set->addAll($someElements);

Sequences

// Read Operations
$seq = new Sequence([0, 2, 3, 2]);
$seq->get(2); // int(3)
$seq->all(); // [0, 2, 3, 2]

$seq->first(); // Some(0)
$seq->last(); // Some(2)

// Write Operations
$seq = new Sequence([1, 5]);
$seq->get(0); // int(1)
$seq->update(0, 4);
$seq->get(0); // int(4)
$seq->remove(0);
$seq->get(0); // int(5)

$seq = new Sequence([1, 4]);
$seq->add(2);
$seq->all(); // [1, 4, 2]
$seq->addAll(array(4, 5, 2));
$seq->all(); // [1, 4, 2, 4, 5, 2]

// Sort
$seq = new Sequence([0, 5, 4, 2]);
$seq->sortWith(function($a, $b) { return $a - $b; });
$seq->all(); // [0, 2, 4, 5]

Maps

// Read Operations
$map = new Map(['foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'boo']);
$map->get('foo'); // Some('bar')
$map->get('foo')->get(); // string('bar')
$map->keys(); // ['foo', 'baz']
$map->values(); // ['bar', 'boo']
iterator_to_array($map); // ['foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'boo']

$map->first()->get(); // ['foo', 'bar']
$map->last()->get(); // ['baz', 'boo']

// Write Operations
$map = new Map();
$map->set('foo', 'bar');
$map->setAll(array('bar' => 'baz', 'baz' => 'boo'));
$map->remove('foo');

// Sort
$map->sortWith('strcmp');

License

The code is released under the business-friendly Apache2 license.

Documentation is subject to the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license.