Enum

An another Enum implementation for PHP.

Deprecated

⚠️ This project is no longer actively maintained.

Native enum arrived to PHP in version 8.1: https://www.php.net/enumerations If your project is running PHP 8.1+ or your library has it as a minimum requirement you should use it instead of this library.

Why ?

Why creating an another enum package ?

I usually use two enum implementations depends on my needs: myclabs/php-enum or marc-mabe/php-enum.

I appreciate the first one myclabs/php-enum for its simplicity, but it has a big default: two access to the same enum value doesn't return the same class instance.

That's why, I sometimes use the second one marc-mabe/php-enum but its disadvantage is that is not possible to have private constant to represent our enum values. So those constant are publicly exposed.

This is why I've decided to create my own enum implementation, which have the simplicity of myclabs/php-enum with the power of marc-mabe/php-enum.

Installation

This library require PHP >= 8.0, you can easily install it using Composer.

composer require jdecool/enum

Declaration

use JDecool\Enum\Enum;

class MyEnum extends Enum
{
    public const ENUM_1 = 'value_1';
    protected const ENUM_2 = 'value_2';
    private const ENUM_3 = 'value_3';
}

Usage

$value1 = MyEnum::ENUM_1();
$value2 = MyEnum::ENUM_2();
$value3 = MyEnum::ENUM_3();