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Short Description Array wrapper for functional-type array processing.
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Better Arrays
This is a project of spite. It originated when I was tasked with fixing a reporting screen in a web application. The previous developer had done some gnarly repetitive database queries. As the application grew, this page got slower and slower until it started timing out. I knew I could get the data I needed in one query, but I would need to do some significant data reducing and mapping to get it to a state where it would fit into the expected charts and graphs.
Php has an amazing set of array methods; check them out if you haven't: https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php. As someone coming from ES6 JavaScript however, this appears to be a bit overwhelming. In ES6, most array handling can be done with "the big three": map, filter, reduce. Not only that, but you can chain the methods and make beautiful ropey array parsing chains.
In php you might find a method that fits your exact needs, there are 81 methods in that list. However, methods have different signatures, some are editing the array in place, and most importantly, they don't chain.
So in php you might have to do something like this:
You can see I lost interest about halfway through writing that. Also, notice how the method signature of array_map flips from array_reduce and array_filter.
I will admit the php array methods are powerful, but I assert they are overpowered, and as a result, hard to read, hard to write, and generally not user friendly.
I'm eliding one of php major features, keyed arrays. Some methods are included here, but we miss some of the functionality because of the one return policy.
In Better Arrays my goal is to make array handling chainable, easy to read, and easy to write. Most important to me are map, filter, and reduce, but there are too many juicy methods, so I included them where it makes sense. Because of the requirement this be chainable, I'm excluding any methods that modify the array in place.
Try it today, have a BetterArray.
Usage
If it's not obvious, this is a very personal project, and I haven't landed on a prefered implementation method yet, so I've inlcuded them all.
The BetterArray holding your array returns itself until you use one of the return methods. The primary one is returnArray, which returns the array in it's last state.
