- extending Illuminate\Support\Collection so its method is available in ary.

- checking php version before defining the ary() helper function.

composer.json

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
     }
   ],
   "require": {
-    "php": ">=5.4.0"
+    "php": ">=5.4.0",
+    "illuminate/support": "*"
   },
   "autoload": {
     "psr-4": {

src/Ary.php

@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ use ArrayAccess;
 use ArrayIterator;
 use CachingIterator;
 use Countable;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 use IteratorAggregate;
 use JsonSerializable;
 
-class Ary implements ArrayAccess, Countable, IteratorAggregate, JsonSerializable
+class Ary extends Collection implements ArrayAccess, Countable, IteratorAggregate, JsonSerializable
 {
 
     /**

src/helper.php

@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@
 
 use Salarmehr\Ary;
 
-if (!function_exists('ary')) {
+if (!function_exists('ary') && phpversion()) {
 
+
+    function parse_version($version)
+    {
+        $version = explode('.', $version);
+        return $version[0] * 10000 + $version[1] * 100 + $version[2];
+    }
+
+    if (!defined('ary') && parse_version(PHP_VERSION) > parse_version('5.6.0')) {
         /**
          * @param mixed $items,...
          * @return Ary
@@ -18,4 +26,5 @@ if (!function_exists('ary')) {
             return new Ary(...func_get_args());
         }
     }
+}
 

test/Test.php

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 use \Salarmehr\Ary;
 
+require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/../src/Ary.php';
 
 class Test extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase