rikudou/enums-trait

Trait for creating enums in php

PHP Enums

This is yet another PHP enum implementation., _(*1)

What is so different about this one? It uses trait which solves one problem all the other implementations I've seen have - extending some base enum class., _(*2)

All the enums return the same instance for the same enum, so you can check for equality (===) and the result is true., _(*3)

The constructor is made private, so you cannot directly construct an instance via new keyword (but you can create an constructor in your class and make it public if you need to, but I advise against it)., _(*4)

Every internal method is made private so you cannot extend the enum (well, you can but it would be useless)., _(*5)

<?php

MyCoolEnum::Test() == MyCoolEnum::Test(); // true
MyCoolEnum::Test() === MyCoolEnum::Test(); // true
MyCoolEnum::Test() == MyCoolEnum::Test2(); // false
MyCoolEnum::Test() === MyCoolEnum::Test2(); // false

Usage:, _(*6)

Creating enum

<?php

use rikudou\PHPEnum\EnumTrait;

class MyCoolEnum
{
  use EnumTrait;
}

That's it, you just created an enum. It's a pretty basic one, that supports pretty much any value via magic method __callStatic. For example:, _(*7)

<?php


$testValue = MyCoolEnum::TestValue();
$testValue2 = MyCoolEnum::TestValue2();
$testValue3 = MyCoolEnum::PrettyMuchAnythingCanGoHere();

If you want IDE completion you have two options:, _(*8)

1. create the static methods yourself
2. add phpdoc comments to the class (for example PHPStorm supports it)

Create the methods yourself

<?php

use rikudou\PHPEnum\EnumTrait;

class MyCoolEnum
{
  use EnumTrait;

  public static function EnumValue1() {
    return static::_get("EnumValue1");
  }

  public static function EnumValue2() {
    return static::_get("EnumValue2");
  }
}

Your IDE will now autocomplete for EnumValue1 and EnumValue2 static methods., _(*9)

Add phpdoc comments

<?php

use rikudou\PHPEnum\EnumTrait;

/**
 * @method static static EnumValue1()
 * @method static static EnumValue2()
 */
class MyCoolEnum
{ 
  use EnumTrait;
}

The result for IDE is the same as creating the methods yourself., _(*10)

Limiting the allowed enums

If you don't like the idea that you can create pretty much any enum via the magic method, you can limit them like this:, _(*11)

<?php

use rikudou\PHPEnum\EnumTrait;

class MyCoolEnum
{
  use EnumTrait;

  private static function allowedValues()
  {
    return [
      "Value1",
      "Value2",
    ];
  }

  public static function Value3()
  {
    return static::_get("Value3");
  } 
}

Now your enum contains only Value1, Value2 and Value3. Anything else will throw InvalidArgumentException., _(*12)

As you can see, the allowedValues() array doesn't care about the methods you create manually., _(*13)

Using the enums

<?php

function doSomething(MyCoolEnum $myCoolEnum)
{
  switch ($myCoolEnum) {
    case MyCoolEnum::Value1():
      return "Value1";
    case MyCoolEnum::Value2():
      return "Value2";
    // etc
  }
}

As you can see, you can typehint the enum and php itself will check that it's really an instance of the enum., _(*14)

Then you can just check them in switch or if/else or whatever., _(*15)

Getting enum value

If you need the value that the enum holds, you can use the getValue() method., _(*16)

The methods constructed __callStatic magic method hold the value of the method name:, _(*17)

<?php

echo MyCoolEnum::SomeCoolValue()->getValue(); // echoes "SomeCoolValue"

The methods you create have a value that you give them:, _(*18)

<?php

use rikudou\PHPEnum\EnumTrait;

class MyCoolEnum {

  use EnumTrait;

  public static function MyCoolValue() {
    return static::_get(1);
  }

}

echo MyCoolEnum::MyCoolValue()->getValue(); // echoes 1

Some caveats

• the trait caches the objects based on value, meaning that if you create two enum values (static methods) with same value, they will return the same object, e.g. they will return true for equality test

<?php

use rikudou\PHPEnum\EnumTrait;

class MyCoolEnum {

  use EnumTrait;

  public static function Value1() {
    return static::_get("Value");
  }

  public static function Value2() {
    return static::_get("Value"); // same as in Value1()
  }

}

var_dump(MyCoolEnum::Value1() === MyCoolEnum::Value2()); // dumps true

• if you for any reason wanted to serialize the enum and store it (session, db, etc.), after unserializing it wouldn't pass the equality test, therefore the enum cannot be serialized and will throw a LogicException if you try to (using magic methods __sleep and __wakeup)

And that's all, folks. Now all that remains is waiting for a real enum implementation on the php side., _(*19)