dmelin/tantrum

The throwable with the energy of a 6 year old.

v1.0.0 2026-05-25 13:18 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.5 || ^10.0 || ^11.0

MIT

• Daniel Melin

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-05-25 13:23 UTC

README

The throwable with the energy of a 6 year old.

Installation

composer require dmelin/tantrum

Usage

use DMelin\Tantrum\Tantrum;

throw new Tantrum('cant open file.', 2);

Output:

CANT. OPEN. FILE!

Rage Levels

Tantrum accepts a rage level from 1 to 3. Values outside this range are clamped. Default rage is 1.

Rage 1

throw new Tantrum('cant open file.', 1);

CANT OPEN FILE!

Rage 2

throw new Tantrum('cant open file.', 2);

CANT. OPEN. FILE!

Rage 3

throw new Tantrum('cant open file.', 3);

٩(ఠ益ఠ)۶ CANT! OPEN! FILE!!!

Behavior

• Messages are converted to uppercase
• Periods become exclamation marks
• Rage 2 replaces spaces with .
• Rage 3 replaces spaces with ! and triples the final exclamation marks
• Extends RuntimeException and can be caught as such
• Supports exception chaining via the optional third parameter

Testing

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit

License

MIT