README

Note: this Readme will be updated shortly, it reflects the functionality of v1.0.4

Container

Container implementing Psr\ContainerInterface, ArrayAccess, Countable and IteratorAggregate.

The identifiers can use dot notation to access an identifier down a hierarchical level, e.g. to access $container['environment']['headers']['host'] you can code in doted notation as: $config['environment.headers.host']

Initializing

You can initialize by passing an array of key value pairs while creating a new instance, it will use array in memory for this case.

<?php

use IrfanTOOR\Container;

$container = new IrfanTOOR\Container(
  # id => values
  'app' => [
    'name'    => 'My App'
    'version' => '1.1',
  ]
);

Setting

You can by set a service in the Container by using the method 'set':

use IrfanTOOR\Container;

$container = new IrfanTOOR\Container();

# setting hello => world
$container->set('hello', 'world');

# using an array notation
$container->set(['hello' => 'world']);

# defining multiple
$container->set([
  'hello'     => 'world',
  'box'       => 'empty',
  'something' => null,
  'array'     => [
    'action'       => 'go',
    'step'         => 1,
  ],
]);

# defining sub values
$container->set('app.name', 'Another App');
$container->set('debug.level', 2);

# defining a factory service
$container->factory('hash', function(){
    $salt = rand(0, 10000);
    return md5($salt . time());
});

using array access mechanism:

$container['hello'] = 'world';
$container['debug.log.file'] = '/my/debug/log/file.log';

Getting

You can get the stored value or the result from a service in the container by its identifier using the method 'get':

# returns a random hash
$hash = $container->get('hash');

you can also use the array access:

$hash = $container['hash'];

Checking if a value is present in the container

You can use the method 'has' to check if the container has an entry identified with the identifier id:

if ($container->has('hash')) {
  # this will be executed even if the given identifier has the value NULL, 0
  # or false
  echo 'random hash : ' . $container->get('hash');
}

using the array access the above code will become:

if (isset($container['hash']) {
  # this will be executed even if the given identifier has the value NULL, 0
  # or false
  echo 'random hash : ' . $container['hash'];
}

Removing an entry

You can use the method 'remove' or unset on the element:

# using method remove
$container->remove('hash');

# using unset
unset($container['hash']);

Container to Array

The method 'toArray' can be used to convert the container into an array:

$array = $container->toArray();

Array of service identifiers

The array of services identifiers can be retrieved by using the method 'keys':

$services = $container->keys();

Count

The number of items present in the container can be retrieved using the method 'count'. Note that it will return the count of the items at base level.

# will return 1 for the Collection defined in initialization section
$count = $container->count();

Iteration

The container can directly be used in a foreach loop or wherever an iterator is used. for example the code:

foreach($container->toArray() as $k => $v)
{
    $v->close();
}

can be simplified as:

foreach($container as $k => $v)
{
    $v->close();
}