fishingboy/external_sort

external sort PHP library

1.0.1 2026-05-24 02:57 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.4.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.0

MIT

• fishingboy

README

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A PHP library for external merge sort — designed for datasets too large to sort in memory. You can set a block_size limit: data within the limit is sorted in memory, while larger datasets are split into sorted temporary files and merged via a k-way merge.

Available on Packagist for installation via Composer.

Installation

composer require fishingboy/external_sort

Or add it manually to composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "fishingboy/external_sort": "dev-master"
    }
}

Usage

use fishingboy\external_sort\External_sort;

$sorter = new External_sort([
    'block_size'  => 1000,       // max rows buffered in memory before flushing to a temp file
    'result_file' => 'out.txt',  // output path for the final sorted result
    'data_type'   => 'number',   // 'number' (int cast) or 'text' (string trim)
]);

$sorter->add_data($value);  // accepts a single value or an array; call repeatedly
$sorter->create_result();   // performs k-way merge and writes to result_file

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.