Stringify

Simple and tiny class (function) to stringify anything in PHP.

Installation

composer require mf/stringify

Usage

By class and static method

use MF\Stringify\Stringify;

echo Stringify::stringify([1, 2, 3]);   // "[1, 2, 3]"

By standalone function

use function MF\Stringify\stringify;

echo stringify([1, 2, 3]);   // "[1, 2, 3]"

$result = array_map(stringify(...), [1, 'two']); // ['1', '"two"']

Sprintf bonus

with a new %A placeholder for stringify function

use function MF\Stringify\sprintf;

echo sprintf('Hello %A!', 'world');     // Hello "world"!
echo sprintf('Hello %A!', ['world']);   // Hello ["world"]!

Example

NOTE: values longer than 100 chars is shrinked to 100 chars with ... suffix

For easier examples, let's use a standalone function

Type	PHP	Result (string)
NULL	stringify(null);	null
bool	stringify(true);	true
bool	stringify(false);	false
string	stringify('');	""
string	stringify('Some string');	"Some string"
int	stringify(42);	42
float	stringify(3.14);	3.14
array	stringify([1, 2, 3]);	[1, 2, 3]
array	stringify(['foo' => 'bar']);	["foo" => "bar"]
array	stringify(['person' => ['name' => 'Peter Parker'], 'alterego' => 'spider-man']);	["person" => ["name" => "Peter Parker"], "alterego" => "spider-man"]
object	stringify(new \Foo\Bar());	Foo\Bar
object	stringify(new \DateTime());	DateTime { 2018-11-15T10:20:30+00:00 }
object	stringify(Seq::range('1..4'));	MF\Collection\Immutable\Seq [1, 2, 3, 4]

Changelog

For latest changes see CHANGELOG.md file. We follow Semantic Versioning.

Contributing and development

Install dependencies

composer install

Run tests

For each pull-request, unit tests as well as static analysis and codestyle checks must pass.

To run all those checks execute:

composer all