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Package php-dictionary
Short Description A simple abstract class that let you write quick dictionaries using constants
License MIT
Informations about the package php-dictionary
Quick Dictionary implementation for your classes
A simple but powerful package to manage quick "dictionaries" of primitive values with php.
The concept of "dictionary" refers to a simple list of valid values for a specific domain. The package let you define dictionaries using php constants and quickly access to their values outside the class context.
It not aims to be an implementation of an enumerable class, it just let you being able to quick get all constants values of your class as an array, or checking if a value is in the dictionary and thus can be considered as "valid".
Installation
Usage
The package let you choose if you prefer to extend an abstract class or use a trait to implement dictionary features in your class.
The first approach is useful for single responsibility classes such as a simple class for a dictionary of strings, while the latter can be convenient if your class already has inheritance with other dependencies and you simply want to being able to check vailidity of a value against a list of the class constants.
Sample usage with inheritance
Here's an example of a dictionary of fruits that extends dictionary abstract.
Sample usage with composition
Here's an example of a hypothetical vegetables warehouse that already extends another class called StockService
to check product's availability, in this case you can include WithDictionary
trait to add dictionary features
TODO
- Filtering
- Sorting
- Mapping
Disclaimer
PLEASE NOTE This class will probably become useless when php 8.1 will be released within new enums
API.
If you need a complete implementation of an enumerable class, you can rely on more robust and supported packages, like myclabs/php-enum.