YaLinqo: Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP

Features

The most complete port of .NET LINQ to PHP, with many additional methods.
Lazy evaluation, error messages and other behavior of original LINQ.
Detailed PHPDoc and online reference based on PHPDoc for all methods. Articles are adapted from original LINQ documentation from MSDN.
100% unit test coverage.
Best performance among full-featured LINQ ports (YaLinqo, Ginq, Pinq), at least 2x faster than the closest competitor, see performance tests.
Callback functions can be specified as closures (like function ($v) { return $v; }), PHP "function pointers" (either strings like 'strnatcmp' or arrays like array($object, 'methodName')), string "lambdas" using various syntaxes ('"$k = $v"', '$v ==> $v+1', '($v, $k) ==> $v + $k', '($v, $k) ==> { return $v + $k; }').
Keys are as important as values. Most callback functions receive both values and the keys; transformations can be applied to both values and the keys; keys are never lost during transformations, if possible.
SPL interfaces Iterator, IteratorAggregate etc. are used throughout the code and can be used interchangeably with Enumerable.
Redundant collection classes are avoided, native PHP arrays are used everywhere.
Composer support (package on Packagist).
No external dependencies.

Implemented methods

Some methods had to be renamed, because their names are reserved keywords. Original methods names are given in parenthesis.

Generation: cycle, emptyEnum (empty), from, generate, toInfinity, toNegativeInfinity, matches, returnEnum (return), range, rangeDown, rangeTo, repeat, split;
Projection and filtering: cast, ofType, select, selectMany, where;
Ordering: orderBy, orderByDescending, orderByDir, thenBy, thenByDescending, thenByDir;
Joining and grouping: groupJoin, join, groupBy;
Aggregation: aggregate, aggregateOrDefault, average, count, max, maxBy, min, minBy, sum;
Set: all, any, append, concat, contains, distinct, except, intersect, prepend, union;
Pagination: elementAt, elementAtOrDefault, first, firstOrDefault, firstOrFallback, last, lastOrDefault, lastOrFallback, single, singleOrDefault, singleOrFallback, indexOf, lastIndexOf, findIndex, findLastIndex, skip, skipWhile, take, takeWhile;
Conversion: toArray, toArrayDeep, toList, toListDeep, toDictionary, toJSON, toLookup, toKeys, toValues, toObject, toString;
Actions: call (do), each (forEach), write, writeLine.

In total, more than 80 methods.

Example

Process sample data:

// Data
$products = array(
    array('name' => 'Keyboard',    'catId' => 'hw', 'quantity' =>  10, 'id' => 1),
    array('name' => 'Mouse',       'catId' => 'hw', 'quantity' =>  20, 'id' => 2),
    array('name' => 'Monitor',     'catId' => 'hw', 'quantity' =>   0, 'id' => 3),
    array('name' => 'Joystick',    'catId' => 'hw', 'quantity' =>  15, 'id' => 4),
    array('name' => 'CPU',         'catId' => 'hw', 'quantity' =>  15, 'id' => 5),
    array('name' => 'Motherboard', 'catId' => 'hw', 'quantity' =>  11, 'id' => 6),
    array('name' => 'Windows',     'catId' => 'os', 'quantity' => 666, 'id' => 7),
    array('name' => 'Linux',       'catId' => 'os', 'quantity' => 666, 'id' => 8),
    array('name' => 'Mac',         'catId' => 'os', 'quantity' => 666, 'id' => 9),
);
$categories = array(
    array('name' => 'Hardware',          'id' => 'hw'),
    array('name' => 'Operating systems', 'id' => 'os'),
);

// Put products with non-zero quantity into matching categories;
// sort categories by name;
// sort products within categories by quantity descending, then by name.
$result = from($categories)
    ->orderBy('$cat ==> $cat["name"]')
    ->groupJoin(
        from($products)
            ->where('$prod ==> $prod["quantity"] > 0')
            ->orderByDescending('$prod ==> $prod["quantity"]')
            ->thenBy('$prod ==> $prod["name"]'),
        '$cat ==> $cat["id"]', '$prod ==> $prod["catId"]',
        '($cat, $prods) ==> array(
            "name" => $cat["name"],
            "products" => $prods
        )'
    );

// Alternative shorter syntax using default variable names
$result2 = from($categories)
    ->orderBy('$v["name"]')
    ->groupJoin(
        from($products)
            ->where('$v["quantity"] > 0')
            ->orderByDescending('$v["quantity"]')
            ->thenBy('$v["name"]'),
        '$v["id"]', '$v["catId"]',
        'array(
            "name" => $v["name"],
            "products" => $e
        )'
    );

// Closure syntax, maximum support in IDEs, but verbose and hard to read
$result3 = from($categories)
    ->orderBy(function ($cat) { return $cat['name']; })
    ->groupJoin(
        from($products)
            ->where(function ($prod) { return $prod["quantity"] > 0; })
            ->orderByDescending(function ($prod) { return $prod["quantity"]; })
            ->thenBy(function ($prod) { return $prod["name"]; }),
        function ($cat) { return $cat["id"]; },
        function ($prod) { return $prod["catId"]; },
        function ($cat, $prods) {
            return array(
                "name" => $cat["name"],
                "products" => $prods
            );
        }
    );

print_r($result->toArrayDeep());

Output (compacted):

Array (
    [hw] => Array (
        [name] => Hardware
        [products] => Array (
            [0] => Array ( [name] => Mouse       [catId] => hw [quantity] =>  20 [id] => 2 )
            [1] => Array ( [name] => CPU         [catId] => hw [quantity] =>  15 [id] => 5 )
            [2] => Array ( [name] => Joystick    [catId] => hw [quantity] =>  15 [id] => 4 )
            [3] => Array ( [name] => Motherboard [catId] => hw [quantity] =>  11 [id] => 6 )
            [4] => Array ( [name] => Keyboard    [catId] => hw [quantity] =>  10 [id] => 1 )
        )
    )
    [os] => Array (
        [name] => Operating systems
        [products] => Array (
            [0] => Array ( [name] => Linux       [catId] => os [quantity] => 666 [id] => 8 )
            [1] => Array ( [name] => Mac         [catId] => os [quantity] => 666 [id] => 9 )
            [2] => Array ( [name] => Windows     [catId] => os [quantity] => 666 [id] => 7 )
        )
    )
)

Requirements

Version 1 (stable): PHP 5.3 or higher.
Version 2 (stable): PHP 5.5 or higher.
Version 3 (pre-alpha): PHP 7.0 or higher.

Usage

Add to composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "athari/yalinqo": "^2.0"
    }
}

Add to your PHP script:

require_once 'vendor/autoloader.php';
use \YaLinqo\Enumerable;

// 'from' can be called as a static method or via a global function shortcut
Enumerable::from(array(1, 2, 3));
from(array(1, 2, 3));

License

Links

YaLinqo Articles

CodeProject (English):
- LINQ for PHP comparison: YaLinqo, Ginq, Pinq — performance comparison of full-featured LINQ ports, with some additional information.
Habrahabr (Russian):
- Comparison of old LINQ libraries — comparison of LINQ for PHP, Phinq, PHPLinq and Plinq, also Underscore.php.
- YaLinqo 1.0 with updated comparison — explanation of architecture and design decisions.
- YaLinqo 2.0 — switch to PHP 5.5 with generators support and related changes.
- LINQ for PHP: speed matters — performance comparison of full-featured LINQ ports (YaLinqo, Ginq, Pinq).
Other (English):
- Tute Wall: How to use Linq in PHP by Mr. X — a series of posts covering basic usage of YaLinqo.

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