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Kurir (Swedish courier) is a minimal event system for PHP. With Kurir you can subscribe to custom typed events.

Usage

final class MyEvent implements Event
{
    private $message;

    public function __construct(string $message)
    {
        $this->message = $message;
    }

    public function getMessage(): string
    {
        return $this->message;
    }
}

$kurir = new Kurir();

$kurir->subscribe(function (MyEvent $event) {
   echo $event->getMessage();
});

$kurir->emit(new MyEvent('Hello, World!'));

Installation

composer require paket/kurir

Requirements

Requires PHP 7.1 or higher.

General

Core interfaces

Kurir consist of three interfaces, Event, EventSource and EventEmitter, where class Kurir implements EventSource and EventEmitter.

Event

interface Event
{
}

Event is the common type of all events, but it doesn't provide any methods, it is up to each event implementation to add the methods or properties that it needs.

EventSource

interface EventSource
{
    public function subscribe(callable $listener): callable;

    public function unsubscribe(callable $listener): void;
}

Listeners can subscribe and unsubscribe to events by using EventSource. subsribe() returns the same callable that is past as a parameter to it, this helps when unsubscribing.

$listener = $eventSource->subscribe(function (MyEvent $event) {
   echo $event->getMessage();
});

$eventSource->unsubscribe($listener);

EventEmitter

interface EventEmitter
{
   public function emit(Event $event): void;
}

Used to emit one event of type Event to every subscriber of that event type.

Example

By separating EventSource and EventEmitter to two different interfaces you only need to expose one or the other in program code, e.g. lets say we have a repository that saves records and we want to log that.

final class InsertedRecordEvent implements Event
{
    private $id;
    private $record;

    public function __construct(int $id, array $record)
    {
        $this->id = $id;
        $this->record = $record;
    }

    public function getId(): int
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    public function getRecord(): array
    {
        return $this->record;
    }
}

interface Storage
{
    public function insert(string $location, array $record): int;
}

final class RecordRepository
{
    private $storage;
    private $eventEmitter;

    public function __construct(Storage $storage, EventEmitter $eventEmitter)
    {
        $this->storage = $storage;
        $this->eventEmitter = $eventEmitter;
    }

    public function insertRecord(array $record)
    {
        $id = $this->storage->insert('record', $record);
        $this->eventEmitter->emit(new InsertedRecordEvent($id, $record));
    }
}

final class RecordLog
{
    private $eventSource;
    private $listener;

    public function __construct(EventSource $eventSource)
    {
        $this->eventSource = $eventSource;
        $this->listener = $this->eventSource->subscribe(function (InsertedRecordEvent $event) {
            echo "Inserted record {$event->getId()}";
        });
    }

    public function __destruct()
    {
        $this->eventSource->unsubscribe($this->listener);
    }
}


$kurir = new Kurir();
$repository = new RecordRepository($storage, $kurir);
$log = new RecordLog($kurir);
$repository->insertRecord(['action' => 'login', 'user' => 'joe', 'time' => 1631375296]);

License

Kurir is released under the MIT License. See the bundled file LICENSE.txt.