Pseudo-extension methods in PHP

• aphiria

  14 138 7.8 PHP

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I wanted to pick the community's brain on a feature I've been toying with that would add something very similar to extension methods with a trait (similar to Laravel's Macroable trait, but with the added ability to define them on interfaces). For those who aren't familiar with extension methods, they're syntactic sugar for helper methods, and are commonly used to extend functionality for classes/interfaces you do not "own". Since PHP doesn't support them natively, though, you'd need to "own" the class/interface and use a trait to support them. I wrote a PR for such functionality (and provided some methods for a few classes in my framework), but am somewhat on the fence as to how useful this library would be. On the one hand, I could provide common extension methods for things like collections (think LINQ in C#), but on the other it feels hacky because it requires concrete classes to use a trait to support them, which feels like a break in abstraction.

• PhpFriendClasses

  5 4 4.2 PHP

You can inject the trait during autoloading, I do something similar in one little project (which is not really intended to be used) here: https://github.com/RikudouSage/PhpFriendClasses.

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