Functional PHP
Primitives for functional programming in PHP (by lstrojny)
Design Patterns PHP
sample code for several design patterns in PHP 8 (by domnikl)
| Functional PHP | Design Patterns PHP | |
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| 6 | 4 | |
| 1,984 | 20,863 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.8 | |
| over 1 year ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Functional PHP
Posts with mentions or reviews of Functional PHP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.
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I asked GPT-4 what top 5 improvements it would make to the PHP language to make it more competitive
A lot of this can be handled in userland. For examples libraries such as https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php/blob/main/docs/functional-php.md handle a lot of this.
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How do I become a better dev?
I’m also trying to use all of these at least once or twice to have these tools under my belt should I want them https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php
- How to Lose Functional Programming at Work
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PHP 8.2 Released
https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php
The no-brainers to me are the missing array_some()/array_any() array_every()/array_all() and an array_search() that takes a predicate an iterable. I do these now in userland but an optimized native version would be nice.
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PHP Map - PHP arrays and collections made easy
Functional PHP, which provides a lot of similar functionality, also uses pluck and has for many years https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php
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Simple Composition with Array.Reduce
While looking at functional-php, I saw a pretty neat way of doing composition with an array_reduce method, and wanted to recreate it in JavaScript. There are plenty of libraries that implement this (and do so more effectively), but it's pretty fun knowing that you can get this functionality with a couple lines of plain JavaScript.
Design Patterns PHP
Posts with mentions or reviews of Design Patterns PHP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-21.
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Top 16 Must-Have Resources for Advanced PHP Backend Development (Laravel & Symfony)
DesignPatternsPHP (GitHub Repository): For those who learn best by examining code, this GitHub repository offers a direct, code-focused collection of various design pattern implementations in PHP. It's an excellent companion to theoretical learning, allowing you to see how patterns translate into concrete, functional code. View DesignPatternsPHP Examples
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PHP, Analytics and surroundings
Design Patterns PHP PHP week and more PHP! Not exactly an article but rather an entire repository that collects various design patterns with related examples, use cases, and implementations in PHP. For further doubts, for most of them, a link to the Wikipedia page describing the design pattern itself has been included.
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100+ Must Know Github Repositories For Any Programmer
6. Design Patterns PHP
- PHP MVC Framework
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Functional PHP and Design Patterns PHP you can also consider the following projects:
RulerZ - Powerful implementation of the Specification pattern in PHP
Iter - Iteration primitives using generators
Pipeline - League\Pipeline
Monad PHP - A simple Monad library for PHP