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The utils component of the Salient toolkit

salient/utils provides a suite of useful utility methods via stateless classes.

• Arr works with arrays and iterables.

• Date works with date and time values, timezones and intervals.

• Debug gets caller information by normalising backtrace data.

• Env retrieves environment variables, loads values from .env files, and applies values from the environment to the script.

• File provides methods for filesystem operations that throw exceptions on failure.

• Format makes data human-readable.

• Get extracts, converts and generates data. For example:

  • Get::coalesce() replicates the SQL COALESCE() function
  • Get::code() improves upon var_export()
  • Get::copy() gets a deep copy of an object
  • Get::eol() gets a string's end-of-line sequence
  • Get::uuid() generates or converts a UUID

• Inflect converts English words to different forms, e.g. from singular to plural.

• Json provides methods for encoding and decoding JSON data that throw exceptions on failure.

• Package retrieves information from Composer's runtime API, e.g. the name of the root package.

• Reflect works with PHP's reflection API.

• Regex provides methods for working with regular expressions that throw exceptions on failure.

• Str manipulates strings. For example:

  • Str::expandLeadingTabs() expands leading tabs to spaces
  • Str::matchCase() matches the case of one string to another
  • Str::ngrams() gets a string's n-grams
  • Str::snake() converts a string to snake_case
  • Str::splitDelimited() safely splits strings that contain delimiters

• Sys retrieves information about the runtime environment, and provides a handler for exit signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGHUP).

• Test performs tests on values.

Documentation

API documentation for salient/utils tracks the main branch of the toolkit's GitHub repository, where further documentation can also be found.