aircury/collection

Library to provide collection structures, to use instead of arrays

Collection

PHP Arrays with additional functionality. Arrays on steroids., _(*1)

Usage

There are two ways of using this library. To create Collections of objects or Collections of PHP scalar types., _(*2)

Object Collections

To create you own Collection, the easiest way is to copy and adjust the sample CarCollection, replacing Car with the class that you need., _(*3)

More generically, these are the steps to create your own Collection: - Extend the AbstractCollection class - Implement on the child these methods, - getClass() to provide information about the expected class or interface that all the objects on the collection should be. - offsetGet($offset) to specify the return class. - toArray() to provide PHPDoc information about the elements of the array. - first() to specify the return class., _(*4)

Scalar type Collections

This library comes out of the box with the following Collections, ready to use: - StringCollection - StringOrNullCollection - IntegerCollection - IntegerOrNullCollection, _(*5)

These classes include additional expected functionality that you would expect from the data type, e.g. implode(), sum(), ..., _(*6)

If they do not suit your needs, you can extend any of them or the AbstractScalarTypeCollection to implement your own., _(*7)