edoceo/lowline

Magic Global Functions

v2024.0.309 2024-11-04 13:43 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0.0
• ext-curl: *
• ext-json: *

MIT

README

This library introduces dozens of functions, all prefixed with __ to the global PHP namespace.

These routines are extensions, helpers, shorthand, wrappers around existing core PHP functions.

Example

A prime example is json_encode which has some legacy defaults. We simply change those, with our "magic" function, adding two __.

__json_encode($d);

Isn't __ Reserved?

It's (sorta) true! PHP says so.

PHP reserves all function names starting with __ as magical. It is recommended that you do not use function names with __ in PHP unless you want some documented magic functionality.

So, it's reserved, but explicitly for magic. And this library is doing "magic" in a similar way, just for functions not OO. And documented (sorta).