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Array View is a PHP library that provides powerful abstractions and utilities for working with lists of data. Create views of arrays, slice and index using Python-like notation, transform and select your data using chained and fluent operations.

Features

Array views as an abstraction over an array
Forward and backward array indexing
Selecting and slicing using Python-like slice notation
Filtering, mapping, matching and masking
Chaining operations via pipes and fluent interfaces

How to install to your project

composer require smoren/array-view

Usage

Indexing

Index into an array forward or backwards using positive or negative indexes.

use Smoren\ArrayView\Views\ArrayView;

$view = ArrayView::toView([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]);

$view[0];  // 1
$view[1];  // 2
$view[-1]; // 7
$view[-2]; // 6

Slices

Use Python-like slice notation to select a range of elements: [start, stop, step].

use Smoren\ArrayView\Views\ArrayView;

$originalArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
$view = ArrayView::toView($originalArray);

$view['1:6'];   // [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
$view['1:7:2']; // [2, 4, 6]
$view[':3'];    // [1, 2, 3]
$view['::-1'];  // [9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

Insert into parts of the array.

$view['1:7:2'] = [22, 44, 66];
print_r($originalArray); // [1, 22, 3, 44, 5, 66, 7, 8, 9]

Subviews

Create subviews of the original view using masks, indexes, and slices.

use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\IndexListSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\MaskSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\SliceSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Views\ArrayView;

$originalArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
$view = ArrayView::toView($originalArray);

// Object-oriented style
$view->subview(new MaskSelector([true, false, true, false, true]))->toArray(); // [1, 3, 5]
$view->subview(new IndexListSelector([1, 2, 4]))->toArray();                   // [2, 3, 5]
$view->subview(new SliceSelector('::-1'))->toArray();                          // [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

// Scripting style 
$view->subview([true, false, true, false, true])->toArray(); // [1, 3, 5]
$view->subview([1, 2, 4])->toArray();                        // [2, 3, 5]
$view->subview('::-1')->toArray();                           // [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

$view->subview(new MaskSelector([true, false, true, false, true]))->apply(fn ($x) => x * 10);
print_r($originalArray); // [10, 2, 30, 4, 50]

Subarray Multi-indexing

Directly select multiple elements using an array-index multi-selection.

use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\IndexListSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\MaskSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\SliceSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Views\ArrayView;

$originalArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
$view = ArrayView::toView($originalArray);

// Object-oriented style
$view[new MaskSelector([true, false, true, false, true])]; // [1, 3, 5]
$view[new IndexListSelector([1, 2, 4])];                   // [2, 3, 5]
$view[new SliceSelector('::-1')];                          // [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

// Scripting style
$view[[true, false, true, false, true]]; // [1, 3, 5]
$view[[1, 2, 4]];                        // [2, 3, 5]
$view['::-1'];                           // [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

$view[new MaskSelector([true, false, true, false, true])] = [10, 30, 50];
print_r($originalArray); // [10, 2, 30, 4, 50]

Combining Subviews

Combine and chain subviews one after another in a fluent interface to perform multiple selection operations.

use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\IndexListSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\MaskSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\SliceSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Views\ArrayView;

$originalArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];

// Fluent object-oriented style
$subview = ArrayView::toView($originalArray)
    ->subview(new SliceSelector('::2'))                          // [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
    ->subview(new MaskSelector([true, false, true, true, true])) // [1, 5, 7, 9]
    ->subview(new IndexListSelector([0, 1, 2]))                  // [1, 5, 7]
    ->subview(new SliceSelector('1:'));                          // [5, 7]

$subview[':'] = [55, 77];
print_r($originalArray); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 55, 6, 77, 8, 9, 10]

// Fluent scripting style
$originalArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
$subview = ArrayView::toView($originalArray)
    ->subview('::2')                           // [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
    ->subview([true, false, true, true, true]) // [1, 5, 7, 9]
    ->subview([0, 1, 2])                       // [1, 5, 7]
    ->subview('1:');                           // [5, 7]

$subview[':'] = [55, 77];
print_r($originalArray); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 55, 6, 77, 8, 9, 10]

Selectors Pipe

Create pipelines of selections that can be saved and applied again and again to new array views.

use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\IndexListSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\MaskSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Selectors\SliceSelector;
use Smoren\ArrayView\Views\ArrayView;

$originalArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
$selector = new PipeSelector([
    new SliceSelector('::2'),
    new MaskSelector([true, false, true, true, true]),
    new IndexListSelector([0, 1, 2]),
    new SliceSelector('1:'),
]);

$view = ArrayView::toView($originalArray);
$subview = $view->subview($selector);
print_r($subview[':']); // [5, 7]

$subview[':'] = [55, 77];
print_r($originalArray); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 55, 6, 77, 8, 9, 10]

Documentation

For detailed documentation and usage examples, please refer to the API documentation.

Unit testing

composer install
composer test-init
composer test

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

Standards

ArrayView conforms to the following standards:

License

ArrayView PHP is licensed under the MIT License.

smoren / array-view

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