Add toLocaleString() method to array

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ From Hacktoberfest:
 - Test coverage at 100%
 - Arr::isEmpty() methods thanks to @Tautve for the implementation and @RoadSigns for the review
 - Allow Arr::flatMap() to support multidimensional arrays by @RoadSigns
+- Add toLocaleString() to get the string representation of the elements in the array
 
 ## 0.0.9 - 2022-10-02
 From Hacktoberfest:

doc/arr.md

@@ -384,3 +384,23 @@ var_dump($arr->copyWithin(-2, -3, -1));
 
 ```
 
+## Return a string representing the elements in the array using a locale and timezone
+
+Default locale is en_US, and the timezone is UTC, in order to use a different locale make sure it is installed.
+
+To check available locales in linux based systems run `locale -a`
+
+To install a missing locale in linux based systems run `sudo apt-get install language-pack-XX`
+
+```php
+use HiFolks\DataType\Arr;
+
+$arr = Arr::make([1, 2, 3, 'a', 'abc', 123456.4, "2022/10/01"]);
+var_dump($arr->toLocaleString()); // Using en_US as default locale and UTC as default timezone
+// 1,2,3,a,abc,123,456.40,Sat 01 Oct 2022 12:00:00 AM UTC
+
+$arr = Arr::make([1, 2, 3, 'a', 'abc', 123456.4, "2022/10/01"]);
+var_dump($arr->toLocaleString("fr_FR.utf8", "Europe/Paris")); // Using provided locale and timezone
+// [1,2,3,a,abc,123 456,40,sam. 01 oct. 2022 00:00:00]
+```
+

examples/cheatsheet.php

@@ -271,3 +271,9 @@ function print_result(mixed $something): void
     print_result($arr->copyWithin(-2, -3, -1));
     // [1, 2, 3, 3, 4]
 }
+
+// Return a string representing the elements of the array
+$arr = Arr::make([1, 2, 3, 'a', 'abc', 123456.4, '2022/10/01']);
+
+print_r($arr->toLocaleString()); // Default locale and timezone
+print_r($arr->toLocaleString('fr_FR.utf8', 'Europe/Paris')); // Provided locale and timezone

src/Arr.php

@@ -726,4 +726,57 @@ public function isEmpty(): bool
     {
         return $this->length() === 0;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a string representing the elements of the array
+     * @return string the string representation
+     */
+    public function toLocaleString($locale = 'en_US.utf8', $timezone = 'UTC'): string
+    {
+        if ($this->length() <= 0) {
+            return '';
+        }
+
+        date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
+        $currentLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
+        $localeConfig = localeconv();
+
+        $result = $this->map(function ($item) use ($localeConfig) {
+            if (is_numeric($item)) {
+                $item = number_format(
+                    $item,
+                    is_float($item) ? 2 : 0,
+                    $localeConfig['decimal_point'] ?? '.',
+                    $localeConfig["thousands_sep"] ?? ','
+                );
+            } elseif ($this->isDate($item)) {
+                $date = date_parse($item);
+                $item = strftime(
+                    '%c',
+                    mktime($date['hour'], $date['minute'], $date['second'], $date['month'], $date['day'], $date['year'])
+                );
+            }
+
+            return $item;
+        });
+
+        return $result->toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Checks whether a value is a valid date
+     * @return boolean true if value is a valid date, false otherwise
+     */
+    protected function isDate($value): bool
+    {
+        if (!$value) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $date = date_parse($value);
+
+        return $date['error_count'] == 0
+            && $date['warning_count'] == 0
+            && checkdate($date['month'], $date['day'], $date['year']);
+    }
 }

tests/ArrTest.php

@@ -625,3 +625,48 @@
     expect($result->length())->toEqual(4);
     expect($result->arr())->toEqual([2, 4, 6, 8]);
 });
+
+it('tests setLocaleString() returns an empty string for empty array', function () {
+    $arr = Arr::make([]);
+
+    $result = $arr->toLocaleString();
+    expect($result)
+        ->toBeString()
+        ->toEqual('');
+});
+
+it("tests setLocaleString() returns a string representing the elements of the array", function () {
+    $arr = Arr::make(['🥝', '🍎', 'I_DONT_KNOW', 1, 2, 3]);
+
+    $result = $arr->toLocaleString();
+    expect($result)
+        ->toBeString()
+        ->toEqual('🥝,🍎,I_DONT_KNOW,1,2,3');
+});
+
+it("tests setLocaleString() transforms dates and numbers using default locale and timezone", function () {
+    $arr = Arr::make([-123897.23, +123456.03, 'a', '2022-10-01']);
+
+    $result = $arr->toLocaleString(); // 'en_US.utf8', 'UTC'
+    expect($result)
+        ->toBeString()
+        ->toEqual('-123,897.23,123,456.03,a,Sat 01 Oct 2022 12:00:00 AM UTC');
+});
+
+it("tests setLocaleString() transforms dates and numbers using provided locale and timezone", function () {
+    $arr = Arr::make([-123897.23, +123456.03, 'a', '2022-10-01']);
+
+    $result = $arr->toLocaleString('fr_FR.utf8', 'Europe/Paris');
+    expect($result)
+            ->toBeString()
+            ->toEqual('-123 897,23,123 456,03,a,sam. 01 oct. 2022 00:00:00');
+});
+
+it("tests setLocaleString() skips nulls and invalid dates", function () {
+    $arr = Arr::make(['product', 123456.4, null, '2020-14-14']);
+
+    $result = $arr->toLocaleString();
+    expect($result)
+        ->toBeString()
+        ->toEqual('product,123,456.40,,2020-14-14');
+});