PHP Objects Extensions: Add functions to objects using another class

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Extensible Objects is a PHP library that provides the mechanisms to dynamically add extension methods to objects.

Installation

>Requirements: >- PHP 7.3+

Install Extensible Objects using Composer:

composer require norse-blue/extensible-objects

Usage

Create a base class that is to be extensible. To be extensible it has to implement NorseBlue\ExtensibleObjects\Contracts\Extensible and it should use NorseBlue\ExtensibleObjects\Traits\HandlesExtensionMethods:

namespace App;

use NorseBlue\ExtensibleObjects\Contracts\Extensible;
use NorseBlue\ExtensibleObjects\Traits\HandlesExtensionMethods;

class MyObject implements Extensible {
    use HandlesExtensionMethods;
}

That's all there is to it. Now you can add extension methods to the class. The best way to do so is to create an extension method class. This class must implement NorseBlue\ExtensibleObjects\Contracts\ExtensionMethod interface.

This is a special class that is invokable and returns a callback that will become the base class extension method. You can pass any number of parameters to the __invoke method and you have to pass them to the callback.

The only caveat is they all have to be optional (have a default value):

namespace App\Extensions;

class MyObjectExtension implements ExtensionMethod {
    public function __invoke() {
        return function($param1, $param2, $param3) {
            $str = '$param1: ' . $param1 . PHP_EOL . '$param2: ' .$param2 . PHP_EOL . '$param3: ';
            
            if (is_array($param3)) {
                foreach($param3 as $item) {
                    $str .= $item . ', ';
                }
            } else {
              $str .= 'Not an array';
            }
                        
            return rtrim($str, ', ');
        }
    }
}

Now you have to register the extension method anywhere in your code (obviously before using it).

To register the method you need to call the base class registerExtensionMethod function and pass it a name with what you will call the extension and the callable (in this case the invokable class name):

use App\MyObject;
use App\Extensions\MyObjectExtension;

MyObject::registerExtensionMethod('my_method', MyObjectExtension::class);

Now you can use your method as it were part of the class:

$obj = new MyObject;
echo $obj->my_method('My string', 3, ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']);

The above code will output:

$param1: My string
$param2: 3
$param3: foo, bar, baz

The extension method will be run in the class context, as it were declared inside the class. Being so, you have access to everything inside the base class (even private properties and methods). The extension method does not have to inherit from the base class, but doing so will help your IDE with auto completion and static analysis if using some class methods and properties.

For more examples look in the tests folder.

Documentation

For the full documentation refer to the docs folder.

Changelog

Please refer to the CHANGELOG.md file for more information about what has changed recently.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are accepted and encouraged. Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details on contributions.

Credits

• Axel Pardemann
• All Contributors

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email security@norse.blue instead of using the issue tracker.

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License

Extensible Objects is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.