varexporter
A powerful alternative to var_export(), which can export closures and objects without __set_state() (by brick)
scalar_objects
Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP (by nikic)
| varexporter | scalar_objects | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 22 | |
| 174 | 1,125 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 5.3 | 2.8 | |
| 12 days ago | 6 months ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
varexporter
Posts with mentions or reviews of varexporter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
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About using print_r...
Its output syntax is awful, https://github.com/brick/varexporter is a userland rewrite that looks way better.
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Fastest way to load serialized data
Shamless plug: you might be interested in trying brick/varexporter
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Simple RFC ideas that could make it into PHP 8.1?
Until that thay, you have brick/varexporter 🙂
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[VOTE] var_representation() : readable alternative to var_export()
I very much hope this gets in. I use brick/varexporter and it would be nice to be able to drop it for something built-in.
scalar_objects
Posts with mentions or reviews of scalar_objects.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
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What I always dreamed of PHP 😎 (IMPORTANT!)
I know there are such experiments, but it's unlikely to become a part of the language any time soon :(
- What is your #1 PHP feature request (part 2)
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What is your #1 PHP feature request
Scalar objects has a prototype implementation since at least 2015: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects/issues/20
- Modern PHP features explained – PHP 8.0 and 8.1
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Alternatives to Magic Methods?
For the love of god yes please yes this 1000x. I'd like to throw in scalar objects too.
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Why does PHP not have object-oriented strings and arrays? Will it be added in a future version
Nikita Popov tried to solve the problem with this extension, but it never got wide support. The problem is that without users asking for this feature, Jetbrains and psalm/phpstan will not integrate it. But w/o their support, users cannot not even try the extension as everything will be shown as error.
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Should PHP9 standardize naming conventions throughout the language?
These as it would remove the need to even care about the old function names which would exist for B/C purposes. We'd then be able to use primitive types as objects with functions to do all their manipulation as needed.
- Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP
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Which inconsistences of PHP annoy you the most?
It's been possible for quite a while but you have to enable a custom extension: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects and create an implementation of the class wrapper. I made one quite some time ago which is probably very incomplete: https://github.com/RikudouSage/scalar-objects.
- What third-party extension or library would you like to see included in php as default?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing varexporter and scalar_objects you can also consider the following projects:
pecl-php-operator - Operator overloading for Objects
php-docker - Docker Official Image packaging for PHP