Brick\Money VS GrumPHP

For the last couple of years I’ve been using Value Objects in my projects to bring language-level strict types to what would typically be array data structures in my code. From method inputs to JSON API responses, value objects have almost entirely replaced arrays throughout. The ability to get runtime type checking and IDE auto-complete has eliminated many potential bugs, from key typos, to assigning an incorrectly typed value by accident: what type is an “amount” property in a credit card transaction API response? An integer of cents (or other minor units), a Money object such as brick/money or moneyphp/money? Or worst of all, a float?

brick/money: A money and currency library for PHP

1 - Floating point is not always great for money operations and can introduce odd rounding errors - https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.float.php - you might want to use something like this: https://github.com/brick/money

He should have said to use Brick/Money https://github.com/brick/money which is based on Brick/Math but is specifically money related.

If you don’t want to do the integer conversions yourself, I highly recommend looking at: https://github.com/brick/money

brick/date-time is great! I personally prefer its interface and functionality over Carbon's. I also really like his money library

Is the most popular, but https://github.com/brick/money is preferrable IMO. One of the reasons is that it handles not just money, but all arbitrary precision calculations independent of currecy via brick/math.

GrumPHP: A PHP code-quality tool.

Depends on what you mean by plugin, but a GrumPHP is a great tool. It registers a pre-commit git hook that runs whatever quality tools you've configured every time someone commits. If one of the checks fail, the commit is aborted. It's very easy to install and configure.

sounds like you heard of Grumphp

Of course, in this simple way, you will need run the command before commits to ensure a correct code style. We can improve this we can to use some pre-commit hook, like a grumphp https://github.com/phpro/grumphp.

How does this compare to existing tools like GrumPHP or Captain Hook? Why should I use it instead?

Are you aware of GrumPHP?

I use grumphp to run phplint, phpstan, Easy coding standard (includes php-cs fixer) and phpunit. All four will automatically run before every commit, stopping any 'below standard' code from being committed. Example config file