Datastructures: Colection - A jack of all trades

The Standard PHP Library (SPL) provides a set of standard data structures, and there is also a PECL package Efficient data structures for PHP 7 available for some systems. SPHP framework introduces a few extensions and add-ons to this set.

CollectionInterface: an interface for general purpose collections
- Collection: implementation

Synopsis

Appends a new value as the last element

public append(mixed $value):static

Prepends a new value as the first element

public prepend(mixed $value):static

Determine if the collection is empty or not

public isEmpty():bool

Clears the contents

public clear():static

Checks whether a value exists in the collection

public contains(mixed $value):bool

Removes all instances of the given value

public remove(mixed $value):static

Serializes to an array

public toArray():array

Collection example