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The goal of this library is to provide easy helpers to shorten repetitive task that are used day in and day out.

Guidelines

• Do not create something that you can get from another supported library.
• K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid), don't make large helpers.
• Keep them as static methods for simplicity

Helps shorten typical logic that can become excessive, such as getting a value from an deep array or returning null.

Methods

grabOrNull((array|object) $haystack, (string) $needle)

Used when dealing with arrays or object, when getting values. check recursively for key, return value or null if key not found

• $haystack - (array|object) it will do the same, for array or object
• $needle - (string) search recursively by seperating the keys with /, exp a/b/c

example usage

use

Shorty::grabOrNull($deepArray, "a/b/c/d");

instead of...

isset($deepArray['a']['b']['c']['d']) ? $deepArray['a']['b']['c']['d'] : null;

grabOr((array|object) $haystack, (string) $needle, (mixed) $default)

Used when dealing with arrays or object, when getting values. check recursively for key, return value or your default if key not found

• $haystack - (array|object) it will do the same, for array or object
• $needle - (string) search recursively by seperating the keys with /, exp a/b/c
• $default - (mixed) anything you wish to return by default

example usage

use

Shorty::grabOr($deepArray, "a/b/c/d", "tacos");

instead of...

isset($deepArray['a']['b']['c']['d']) ? $deepArray['a']['b']['c']['d'] : "tacos";

grabOrThrow((array|object) $haystack, (string) $needle, Exception $exception)

Used when dealing with arrays or object, when getting values. check recursively for key, return value or throw your exception.

• $haystack - (array|object) it will do the same, for array or object
• $needle - (string) search recursively by seperating the keys with /, exp a/b/c
• $exception - Exception instance

example usage

use

try {
    $val = Shorty::grabOrThrow($deepArray, "a/b/c/d", new Exception('No tacos'));
} ...

instead of...

try {
    if (! isset($deepArray['a']['b']['c']['d'])) {
        throw new Exception('No Tacos');
    }

    $val = $deepArray['a']['b']['c']['d'];
} ...

guard() this is now deprecated, use https://packagist.org/packages/webmozart/assert instead

Testing

You can use the included Dockerfile for running phpunit.

Setup

1 docker build -t shorty . 2 docker run -it -v $PWD:/var/www/html shorty /bin/bash 3 phpunit and phpunit --coverage-text