SimpleEnum

Dead simple PHP enum. This thing runs on PHP 5.3, heck maybe even PHP 5.1.2*, so just yoink the files if you need it for your Legacy project.

_{* This enum uses the Reflection class, which was introduced in PHP 5.1.2}

Why?

I come from C-like languages with proper enums. Why is there no such simple, built-in, proper, enum in PHP?

The SplEnum looks promising, but has some oddities with its implementation. As an added bonus, it might not work for your setup.

Other third-party alternatives (see this, this, this, and this for instance) are overly complicated for my needs. This should probably solve it for most of my use cases.

Example

<?php

use SimpleEnum\Enum;

class MyEnum extends Enum
{
    const foo = 1;
    const bar = 2;
    const baz = 3;
}

$myEnum = new MyEnum(MyEnum::foo);

assert($myEnum->value() === MyEnum::foo);
assert($myEnum->equals(new MyEnum(1)));

Installation

composer require vladdesv/simple-enum

License

MIT © Vladimirs Nordholm