noeldavies/cards

A deck of standard cards to build any card game

Cards. Build a Card game in minutes.

A standard 52-card deck is provided by default, but one can customize to build any deck needed. Create Bridge, BlackJack, Pocker and more..., _(*1)

Installation

Pull in the package through Composer., _(*2)

Run composer require noeldavies/cards, _(*3)

Usage

To start using the deck..., _(*4)

$d = new Deck;

$d->shuffle();

//deal... an array of cards
$hand1 = $d->drawHand(10);
$hand2 = $d->drawHand(10);

//draw a single card
$card = deck->draw();

//do something with card
$value = $card->value();
$suit = $card->suit();

//special card?
if($card->isFaceCard()){...}

//cards left in the deck
$deck->count(); 

When the game is over, simply reset the deck by shuffle(ing). The deck now has all the cards (including drawn)., _(*5)

//start a new game...
$deck->shuffle();

To customise the deck of cards (i.e. which cards are part of the deck) one can implement the CardProvider interface, _(*6)

class MyGameDeckProvider implements CardProvider{

    public function getCards(){

        //return an array of card for MyGame 
    }
}
//...
$deck = new Deck(new MyGameDeckProvider);

You may also want to look at:, _(*7)

• Shuffleable for shuffling the cards
• CardProvider for providig cards to the deck

The current implementation doen't let putting cards back into the deck after drawing them. Shuffle resets the deck, _(*8)