Re: mbstring, a proposition of additional functions

On 24/09/12 20:04, Andrew Faulds wrote:

On 24/09/12 15:41, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa wrote:

Recently, I crafted a String object that support most of the propositions written here. Please, see https://github.com/hoaproject/String (file String.php). The code is very simple (it implies that it do not need a lot of work to implement it in PHP I hope). Some interesting methods:

    • append;
    • prepend;
    • pad;
    • getIterator (equivalent of str_split);
    • \ArrayAccess methods (with support of out-of-bound indexes);
    • getByteAt (with support of out-of-bound indexes);
    • getCharDirection;
    • fromCode;
    • toCode.

I would love such a library to be built into PHP. A more consistent approach to scalar operations would be great. "hello, world"->replace('world', 'php'); would be so much nicer than str_replace and forgetting the argument order. This is a little off-topic, though. Yup, it is off-topic. We can add new functions in one hand and “autoboxing” scalars into OOP style in another hand.

-- Ivan Enderlin Developer of Hoa http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/ PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis) http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/ Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C http://w3.org/