PHP Fluent

Developer-experience focused string and array manipulation. Fluent is an extremely thin wrapper around laravel/helpers with some extras that exposes two global functions (str() and arr()) rather than the plethora of available helpers.

If you dislike global functions, stick to laravel/helpers - it has (recently added) fluent-like syntax without the extras.

Installation

🍪 Laravel is NOT required to use this package.

composer require cloudcake/php-fluent

Usage

It is important to note the slight argument placement change from the laravel/helpers package. The constructing data is always placed inside the helper function. This is to provide a more consistent, readable syntax you won't forget.

Example:

str('This is my string')->startsWith('This'); // true

Usage of helpers follows this syntax for all string helpers as well as array helpers, the only exceptions being where an argument isn't required, for example str()->random() or str()->uuid().

Extras

Ignore casing

Sometimes it's useful to call helpers ignoring the casing of strings, you can do this by chaining ->ignoreCasing() before executing the function on the string. This provides a cleaner solution than changing the casing on every string yourself.

Example:

str('tHiS is my string')->ignoreCasing()->startsWith('THIS'); // true
str('tHiS is my string')->startsWith('THIS'); // false

Produce many

There may be instances where you need to execute the same thing many times, for example let's say you need 10 UUID's, rather than iterating over the function many times, you may use produce() method.

Example:

str()->produce(10)->uuid();

// Array
// (
//     [0] => fc91fe0a-4254-4792-9604-e5fbf223d0a7
//     [1] => bdc0e4a1-86ca-4dba-ae95-ac4a2ad639d0
//     [2] => 95b06669-3262-4dfa-a9c3-69fc3251f94c
//     [3] => f0b2aec6-fb86-4beb-bdf2-74ddb25ff440
//     [4] => 2d0c02a0-2ec8-402f-b6eb-a1ce83f4e343
//     [5] => e0cc9098-cebf-42ec-89b2-8942930f0293
//     [6] => 2efba194-e2c7-48c7-965d-9efc963edf06
//     [7] => 8e010b42-1664-4272-be2f-90402010866d
//     [8] => ec668d35-ffd4-4b59-bd11-204fd193f6e8
//     [9] => e74a5362-e272-4af6-ba07-3d1f4352d653
// )

Note: If you use 1 as the produce value, the result will not be returned as an array.