Why does PHP not have object-oriented strings and arrays? Will it be added in a future version

• scalar_objects

  22 1,124 2.8 PHP

  Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP

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.

• Stringy

  3 2,465 0.0 PHP

  A PHP string manipulation library with multibyte support

A number of libraries likely already exist to do these kinds of things, for example with strings, Laravel has a string class which has an of() method, Statamic has a modify/modifier class, there are probably other projects or libraries, but I know that Statamic does leverage https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy via this fork https://github.com/statamic/Stringy

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• Stringy

  1 20 3.2 PHP

  A PHP string manipulation library with multibyte support, now with PHP 7.3 support (by statamic)

  

A number of libraries likely already exist to do these kinds of things, for example with strings, Laravel has a string class which has an of() method, Statamic has a modify/modifier class, there are probably other projects or libraries, but I know that Statamic does leverage https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy via this fork https://github.com/statamic/Stringy

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