Are you tired from casting objects and arrays to each other or are bored using isset? Don't do those anymore! Ary is a light class (and a helper function) that makes working with array items more convenient.

You can access array items using -> or [''] syntax.
You will get null if an index does not exists (instead of a nasty notification!)
You can specify a default value for missing indexes.
You can set/get a value within a deeply nested array using "dot" notation.
A bunch of really handy methods: merge, only, search, toObject, ...
(new) It extends Illuminate\Support\Collection class so all of its methods are available (https://laravel.com/docs/master/eloquent-collections)

Examples

// Instantiation
$ary = new Ary();
// or simply
$ary = ary();

//Initialization
$ary = ary(2, 4, 6, 8); // or
$ary = ary([2, 4, 6, 8]); 
$ary = ary(['x' => 'foo', 'y' => 'bar']);

//Assignment;
$ary->newItem=20; //or
$ary['newItem']=20;

//Retrieval
$foo = $ary->x; //or
$foo = $ary['x'];
$missed = $ary->get('missed', 'Default value');
$ary->all(); // returns the simple php array;

// works similar to regular php arrays
count($ary); //returns 3
unset($ary[0]); 
json_encode($ary);

// deep assignment/retrieval
$ary = ary(['products' => ['desk' => ['price' => 100]]]);
$value = $ary['products.desk.price']; //100
$ary['production.table.weight']=200;

Installation

Simply, include '__DIR__.'/src/helper.php';

or using Composer:

composer require salarmehr/ary

The class (Ary()) requires PHP 5.4 or newer.
The helper function (ary()) requires PHP 5.6 or newer.

Licence

MIT