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The extras repository is a collection of chainable, high-order utility functions designed to extend PHP's type manipulation capabilities, offering a JavaScript-style development experience. It introduces methods inspired by JavaScript's array manipulation functions, such as map, filter, and reduce, while improving PHP's method naming conventions and consistency. This package supports diverse PHP types, including arrays, objects, and functions, while providing a fluent, chainable interface to work with data structures efficiently. It helps developers apply JavaScript-like syntax and methods to PHP with performance optimizations.

The packages takes its name from Array Extras referring to the array methods added in ES5 (JavaScript) to abstract generic array manipulation logic

Installation

Require as a composer dependency:

composer require "dsheiko/extras"

Highlights

Fixing PHP:
- Naming convention: all methods are camelCase styles vs PHP built-in functions in lower_case
- Consistent parameter order (Chain::chain($target)->method(...$options) or <Type>::method($target, ...$options))
- Methods are chainable
- Data structure PlainObject similar to JavaScript plain object
- Manipulation target (value) can always be as reference as well as type literal
Familiar syntax: JavaScript methods, in addition methods of Underscore.js/Lodash
Performance: package relies on PHP native methods; no foreach where a built-in specific function can be used

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Examples

None-reference target

<?php
use \Dsheiko\Extras\Arrays;

function numToArray(int $num): array
{
  return [$num];
}
$res = Arrays::map(range(1,3), "numToArray"); // [[1],[2],[3]]

Chaining methods

<?php
use \Dsheiko\Extras\Any;

$res = Any::chain(new \ArrayObject([1,2,3]))
    ->toArray() // value is [1,2,3]
    ->map(function($num){ return [ "num" => $num ]; })
    // value is [[ "num" => 1, ..]]
    ->reduce(function($carry, $arr){
        $carry .= $arr["num"];
        return $carry;

    }, "") // value is "123"
    ->replace("/2/", "") // value is "13"
    ->then(function($value){
      if (empty($value)) {
        throw new \Exception("Empty value");
      }
      return $value;
    })
    ->value();
echo $res; // "13"

Accessing methods directly

<?php
use \Dsheiko\Extras\Arrays;

class Foo
{
    public $bar = "BAR";
}

$arr = Arrays::from(new Foo); // ["bar" => "BAR"]

Plain object

<?php
use \Dsheiko\Extras\Arrays;

$po = Arrays::object(["foo" => "FOO", "bar" => ["baz" => "BAZ"]]);
echo $po->foo; // FOO
echo $po->bar->baz; // BAZ
var_dump($po->bar->entries()); // [["baz", "BAZ"]]

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