Hey there. Just decided to put together a small package, that will help me to get rid of boilerplate mappings likepublic function getAll(): array // returns some static array of strings.

You just need to define constants, and myEnum\Enum class will do the rest for you, thanks to Reflection API.

Here is an example:

<?phpnamespaceApp;useEnum\Enum;classStatusextendsEnum{constACTIVE='active';constINACTIVE='inactive';constBLOCKED='blocked';}$status=newStatus();$status->toArray();// will return [ 'active' => 'active', 'inactive' => 'inactive', 'blocked' => 'blocked' ]$status->hasValue('active');// will return boolean$status->hasKey('blocked');// will return boolean

Enum's constructor has 2 parameters:$caseLower=true and$caseUpper=false.

If you want the case of array keys to be same as constants case - passfalse as$caseLower.

$status=newStatus(false);

If you want the case of array keys to be uppercase - passfalse as$caseLower andtrue as$caseUpper.

$status=newStatus(false,true);

We just created our custom typeEnum. Now I can even use it to have better typed properties in my classes. For example:

<?phpnamespaceApp;useEnum\Enum;classPerson{publicint$identifier;publicstring$name;publicEnum$status;}

Now I know exactly what type has my$status and I know exactly how I should work with that type. I find this much better than using some raw arrays.

GitHub repo:

composer require codebot/phpenum

<?phpnamespaceApp;useEnum\Enum;classStatusextendsEnum{constACTIVE   ='active';constINACTIVE ='inactive';constBLOCKED  ='blocked';}$status =newStatus();$status->toArray();// will return [ 'active' => 'active', 'inactive' => 'inactive', 'blocked' => 'blocked' ]$status->hasValue('active');// will return boolean$status->hasKey('blocked');// will return boolean

Have a nice day!