konsulting/laravel-extend-collections

A few extensions to the Laravel Collection and Arr.

Laravel Extend Collections

A few extensions to the Laravel Collection and Arr., _(*1)

Installation

composer require konsulting/laravel-extend-collections, _(*2)

Using Laravel

If you are using Laravel 5.5, this package will auto-register the service provider. However, if you have chosen not to auto-register, or are using an earlier version, add the CollectionsServiceProvider to your config/app.php., _(*3)

'providers' => [
    // Other service providers...

    Konsulting\Laravel\CollectionsServiceProvider::class,
],

Not using Laravel

There is a simple namespaced helper function to assist with extending Collection and Arr., _(*4)

// Inside your application code, run:

\Konsulting\Laravel\load_collection_extensions();

Arr Extensions

• fromDot - convert an array where the keys are dot-notation indexed to a nested array

Collection extensions

• dropEmpty - drop items whose values are empty()
• deep - apply a function recursively through a collection, and through arrays/collections within it
• dotGet - retrieve an item using dot-notation
• dotSet - set an item using dot-notation
• dotHas - check if an item exists using dot-notation
• dot - convert a nested collection to dot-notation indexed collection
• fromDot - convert a dot-notation indexed collection to a nested collection

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and will be fully credited. We will accept contributions by Pull Request., _(*5)

Please:, _(*6)

• Use the PSR-2 Coding Standard
• Add tests, if you’re not sure how, please ask.
• Document changes in behaviour, including readme.md.

Testing

We use PHPUnit, _(*7)

Run tests using PHPUnit: vendor/bin/phpunit, _(*8)