all
- title: all
- tags: array,beginner
Returns true
if the provided function returns true
for all elements of an array, false
otherwise.
- Use
array_filter()
andcount()
to check if$func
returnstrue
for all the elements in$items
.
function all($items, $func)
{
return count(array_filter($items, $func)) === count($items);
}
all([2, 3, 4, 5], function ($item) {
return $item > 1;
}); // true
any
- title: any
- tags: array,beginner
Returns true
if the provided function returns true
for at least one element of an array, false
otherwise.
- Use
array_filter()
andcount()
to check if$func
returnstrue
for any of the elements in$items
.
function any($items, $func)
{
return count(array_filter($items, $func)) > 0;
}
any([1, 2, 3, 4], function ($item) {
return $item < 2;
}); // true
approximatelyEqual
- title: approximatelyEqual
- tags: math,beginner
Checks if two numbers are approximately equal to each other.
- Use
abs()
to compare the absolute difference of the two values to$epsilon
. - Omit the third parameter,
$epsilon
, to use a default value of0.001
.
function approximatelyEqual($number1, $number2, $epsilon = 0.001)
{
return abs($number1 - $number2) < $epsilon;
}
approximatelyEqual(10.0, 10.00001); // true
approximatelyEqual(10.0, 10.01); // false
average
- title: average
- tags: math,beginner
Returns the average of two or more numbers.
- Use
array_sum()
for all the values in$items
and return the result divided by theircount()
.
function average(...$items)
{
$count = count($items);
return $count === 0 ? 0 : array_sum($items) / $count;
}
average(1, 2, 3); // 2
clampNumber
- title: clampNumber
- tags: math,beginner
Clamps $num
within the inclusive range specified by the boundary values $a
and $b
.
- If
$num
falls within the range, return$num
. - Otherwise, return the nearest number in the range, using
min()
andmax()
.
function clampNumber($num, $a, $b)
{
return max(min($num, max($a, $b)), min($a, $b));
}
clampNumber(2, 3, 5); // 3
clampNumber(1, -1, -5); // -1
compose
- title: compose
- tags: function,intermediate
Return a new function that composes multiple functions into a single callable.
- Use
array_reduce()
to perform right-to-left function composition.
function compose(...$functions)
{
return array_reduce(
$functions,
function ($carry, $function) {
return function ($x) use ($carry, $function) {
return $function($carry($x));
};
},
function ($x) {
return $x;
}
);
}
$compose = compose(
// add 2
function ($x) {
return $x + 2;
},
// multiply 4
function ($x) {
return $x * 4;
}
);
$compose(3); // 20
countVowels
- title: countVowels
- tags: string,regexp,beginner
Returns number of vowels in the provided string.
- Use a regular expression to count the number of vowels (
a
,e
,i
,o
andu
a) in a string.
function countVowels($string)
{
preg_match_all('/[aeiou]/i', $string, $matches);
return count($matches[0]);
}
countVowels('sampleInput'); // 4
curry
- title: curry
- tags: function,advanced
Curries a function to take arguments in multiple calls.
- If the number of provided arguments (
$args
) is sufficient, call the passed function,$function
. - Otherwise, return a curried function that expects the rest of the arguments.
function curry($function)
{
$accumulator = function ($arguments) use ($function, &$accumulator) {
return function (...$args) use ($function, $arguments, $accumulator) {
$arguments = array_merge($arguments, $args);
$reflection = new ReflectionFunction($function);
$totalArguments = $reflection->getNumberOfRequiredParameters();
if ($totalArguments <= count($arguments)) {
return $function(...$arguments);
}
return $accumulator($arguments);
};
};
return $accumulator([]);
}
$curriedAdd = curry(
function ($a, $b) {
return $a + $b;
}
);
$add10 = $curriedAdd(10);
var_dump($add10(15)); // 25
decapitalize
- title: decapitalize
- tags: string,beginner
Decapitalizes the first letter of a string.
- Decapitalizes the first letter of the string and then adds it with rest of the string.
- Omit the
$upperRest
parameter to keep the rest of the string intact, or set it totrue
to convert to uppercase.
function decapitalize($string, $upperRest = false)
{
return lcfirst($upperRest ? strtoupper($string) : $string);
}
decapitalize('FooBar'); // 'fooBar'
deepFlatten
- title: deepFlatten
- tags: array,recursion,intermediate
Deep flattens an array.
- Use recursion.
- Use
array_push
, splat operator and an empty array to flatten the array. - Recursively flatten each element that is an array.
function deepFlatten($items)
{
$result = [];
foreach ($items as $item) {
if (!is_array($item)) {
$result[] = $item;
} else {
array_push($result, ...deepFlatten($item));
}
}
return $result;
}
deepFlatten([1, [2], [[3], 4], 5]); // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
drop
- title: drop
- tags: array,beginner
Returns a new array with $n
elements removed from the left.
- Use
array_slice()
to remove$n
elements from the left. - Omit the second argument,
$n
, to only remove one element.
function drop($items, $n = 1)
{
return array_slice($items, $n);
}
drop([1, 2, 3]); // [2,3]
drop([1, 2, 3], 2); // [3]
endsWith
- title: endsWith
- tags: string,beginner
Checks if a string is ends with a given substring.
- Use
strrpos()
in combination withstrlen
to find the position of$needle
in$haystack
.
function endsWith($haystack, $needle)
{
return strrpos($haystack, $needle) === (strlen($haystack) - strlen($needle));
}
endsWith('Hi, this is me', 'me'); // true
factorial
- title: factorial
- tags: math,recursion,beginner
Calculates the factorial of a number.
- Use recursion.
- If
$n
is less then or equal to1
, return1
. - Otherwise, return the product of
$n
and the factorial of$n -1
.
function factorial($n)
{
if ($n <= 1) {
return 1;
}
return $n * factorial($n - 1);
}
factorial(6); // 720
fibonacci
- title: fibonacci
- tags: math,intermediate
Generates an array, containing the Fibonacci sequence, up until the nth term.
- Create an empty array, initializing the first two values (
0
and1
). - Loop from 2 through
$n
and add values into the array, using the sum of the last two values.
function fibonacci($n)
{
$sequence = [0, 1];
for ($i = 2; $i < $n; $i++) {
$sequence[$i] = $sequence[$i-1] + $sequence[$i-2];
}
return $sequence;
}
fibonacci(6); // [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5]
findLast
- title: findLast
- tags: array,beginner
Returns the last element for which the provided function returns a truthy value.
- Use
array_filter()
to remove elements for which$func
returns falsy values,array_pop()
to get the last one.
function findLast($items, $func)
{
$filteredItems = array_filter($items, $func);
return array_pop($filteredItems);
}
findLast([1, 2, 3, 4], function ($n) {
return ($n % 2) === 1;
});
// 3
findLastIndex
- title: findLastIndex
- tags: array,beginner
Returns the index of the last element for which the provided function returns a truthy value.
- Use
array_keys()
andarray_filter()
to remove elements for which$func
returns falsy values,array_pop()
to get the last one.
function findLastIndex($items, $func)
{
$keys = array_keys(array_filter($items, $func));
return array_pop($keys);
}
findLastIndex([1, 2, 3, 4], function ($n) {
return ($n % 2) === 1;
});
// 2
firstStringBetween
- title: firstStringBetween
- tags: string,beginner
Returns the first string there is between the strings from the parameter $start
and $end
.
- Use
trim()
andstrstr()
to find the string contained between$start
and$end
.
function firstStringBetween($haystack, $start, $end)
{
return trim(strstr(strstr($haystack, $start), $end, true), $start . $end);
}
firstStringBetween('This is a [custom] string', '[', ']'); // custom
flatten
- title: flatten
- tags: array,intermediate
Flattens an array up to the one level depth.
- Use
array_push()
, splat operator andarray_values()
to flatten the array.
function flatten($items)
{
$result = [];
foreach ($items as $item) {
if (!is_array($item)) {
$result[] = $item;
} else {
array_push($result, ...array_values($item));
}
}
return $result;
}
flatten([1, [2], 3, 4]); // [1, 2, 3, 4]
gcd
- title: gcd
- tags: math,recursion,intermediate
Calculates the greatest common divisor between two or more numbers.
- Use recursion.
- Use
array_reduce()
with thegcd
function to appy to all elements in the$numbers
list. - Base case is when
y
equals0
. In this case, returnx
. - Otherwise, return the gcd of
y
and the remainder of the divisionx/y
.
function gcd(...$numbers)
{
if (count($numbers) > 2) {
return array_reduce($numbers, 'gcd');
}
$r = $numbers[0] % $numbers[1];
return $r === 0 ? abs($numbers[1]) : gcd($numbers[1], $r);
}
gcd(8, 36); // 4
gcd(12, 8, 32); // 4
groupBy
- title: groupBy
- tags: array,intermediate
Groups the elements of an array based on the given function.
- Use
call_use_func()
with$func
on$items
to group them based on$func
.
function groupBy($items, $func)
{
$group = [];
foreach ($items as $item) {
if ((!is_string($func) && is_callable($func)) || function_exists($func)) {
$key = call_user_func($func, $item);
$group[$key][] = $item;
} elseif (is_object($item)) {
$group[$item->{$func}][] = $item;
} elseif (isset($item[$func])) {
$group[$item[$func]][] = $item;
}
}
return $group;
}
groupBy(['one', 'two', 'three'], 'strlen'); // [3 => ['one', 'two'], 5 => ['three']]
hasDuplicates
- title: hasDuplicates
- tags: array,beginner
Checks a flat list for duplicate values, returning true
if duplicate values exists and false
if values are all unique.
- Use
count()
andarray_unique()
to check$items
for duplicate values.
function hasDuplicates($items)
{
return count($items) > count(array_unique($items));
}
hasDuplicates([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5]); // true
head
- title: head
- tags: array,beginner
Returns the head of a list.
- Use
reset()
to return the first item in the array.
function head($items)
{
return reset($items);
}
head([1, 2, 3]); // 1
isAnagram
- title: isAnagram
- tags: string,beginner
Compare two strings and returns true
if both strings are anagram, false
otherwise.
- Use
count_chars()
to compare$string1
and$string2
.
function isAnagram($string1, $string2)
{
return count_chars($string1, 1) === count_chars($string2, 1);
}
isAnagram('act', 'cat'); // true
isContains
- title: isContains
- tags: string,beginner
Check if a word / substring exists in a given string input.
- Using
strpos()
to find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.
function isContains($string, $needle)
{
return strpos($string, $needle) === false ? false : true;
}
isContains('This is an example string', 'example'); // true
isContains('This is an example string', 'hello'); // false
isEven
- title: isEven
- tags: math,beginner
Returns true
if the given number is even, false
otherwise.
- Checks whether a number is odd or even using the modulo (
%
) operator. - Returns
true
if the number is even,false
if the number is odd.
function isEven($number)
{
return ($number % 2) === 0;
}
isEven(4); // true
isLowerCase
- title: isLowerCase
- tags: string,beginner
Returns true
if the given string is lower case, false
otherwise.
- Convert the given string to lower case, using
strtolower
and compare it to the original.
function isLowerCase($string)
{
return $string === strtolower($string);
}
isLowerCase('Morning shows the day!'); // false
isLowerCase('hello'); // true
isPrime
- title: isPrime
- tags: math,beginner
Checks if the provided integer is a prime number.
- Check numbers from
2
to the square root of the given number. - Return
false
if any of them divides the given number, else returntrue
, unless the number is less than2
.
function isPrime($number)
{
$boundary = floor(sqrt($number));
for ($i = 2; $i <= $boundary; $i++) {
if ($number % $i === 0) {
return false;
}
}
return $number >= 2;
}
isPrime(3); // true
isUpperCase
- title: isUpperCase
- tags: string,beginner
Returns true
if the given string is upper case, false otherwise.
- Convert the given string to upper case, using
strtoupper
and compare it to the original.
function isUpperCase($string)
{
return $string === strtoupper($string);
}
isUpperCase('MORNING SHOWS THE DAY!'); // true
isUpperCase('qUick Fox'); // false
last
- title: last
- tags: array,beginner
Returns the last element in an array.
- Use
end()
to return the last item in the array.
function last($items)
{
return end($items);
}
last([1, 2, 3]); // 3
lcm
- title: lcm
- tags: math,intermediate
Returns the least common multiple of two or more numbers.
- Use the greatest common divisor (GCD) formula and the fact that
lcm(x,y) = x * y / gcd(x,y)
to determine the least common multiple. - The GCD formula uses recursion.
function lcm(...$numbers)
{
$ans = $numbers[0];
for ($i = 1, $max = count($numbers); $i < $max; $i++) {
$ans = (($numbers[$i] * $ans) / gcd($numbers[$i], $ans));
}
return $ans;
}
lcm(12, 7); // 84
lcm(1, 3, 4, 5); // 60
maxN
- title: maxN
- tags: math,array,intermediate
Returns the maximum value from the provided array.
- Use
array_filter()
andmax()
to find the maximum value in an array.
function maxN($numbers)
{
$maxValue = max($numbers);
$maxValueArray = array_filter($numbers, function ($value) use ($maxValue) {
return $maxValue === $value;
});
return count($maxValueArray);
}
maxN([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5]); // 2
maxN([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]); // 1
median
- title: median
- tags: math,array,beginner
Returns the median of an array of numbers.
- Find the middle of the array, use
sort()
to sort the values. - Return the number at the midpoint if the array's length is odd, otherwise the average of the two middle numbers.
function median($numbers)
{
sort($numbers);
$totalNumbers = count($numbers);
$mid = floor($totalNumbers / 2);
return ($totalNumbers % 2) === 0 ? ($numbers[$mid - 1] + $numbers[$mid]) / 2 : $numbers[$mid];
}
median([1, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9]); // 6
median([1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9]); // 4.5
memoize
- title: memoize
- tags: function,advanced
Returns the memoized (cached) function.
- Create an empty cache by instantiating a new array.
- Return a function which takes a single argument to be supplied to the memoized function by first checking if the function's output for that specific input value is already cached, or store and return it if not.
- Allow access to the cache by setting it as a property on the returned function.
function memoize($func)
{
return function () use ($func) {
static $cache = [];
$args = func_get_args();
$key = serialize($args);
$cached = true;
if (!isset($cache[$key])) {
$cache[$key] = $func(...$args);
$cached = false;
}
return ['result' => $cache[$key], 'cached' => $cached];
};
}
$memoizedAdd = memoize(
function ($num) {
return $num + 10;
}
);
var_dump($memoizedAdd(5)); // ['result' => 15, 'cached' => false]
var_dump($memoizedAdd(6)); // ['result' => 16, 'cached' => false]
var_dump($memoizedAdd(5)); // ['result' => 15, 'cached' => true]
minN
- title: minN
- tags: math,array,intermediate
Returns the minimum value from the provided array.
- Use
array_filter()
andmin()
to find the minimum value in an array.
function minN($numbers)
{
$minValue = min($numbers);
$minValueArray = array_filter($numbers, function ($value) use ($minValue) {
return $minValue === $value;
});
return count($minValueArray);
}
minN([1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5]); // 2
minN([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]); // 1
once
- title: once
- tags: function,intermediate
Call a function only once.
- Return a function, which only calls the provided function,
$function
, if$called
isfalse
and sets$called
totrue
.
function once($function)
{
return function (...$args) use ($function) {
static $called = false;
if ($called) {
return;
}
$called = true;
return $function(...$args);
};
}
$add = function ($a, $b) {
return $a + $b;
};
$once = once($add);
var_dump($once(10, 5)); // 15
var_dump($once(20, 10)); // null
orderBy
- title: orderBy
- tags: array,advanced
Sorts a collection of arrays or objects by key.
- Uses
sort()
on the provided array to sort the array based on$order
and$attr
.
function orderBy($items, $attr, $order)
{
$sortedItems = [];
foreach ($items as $item) {
$key = is_object($item) ? $item->{$attr} : $item[$attr];
$sortedItems[$key] = $item;
}
if ($order === 'desc') {
krsort($sortedItems);
} else {
ksort($sortedItems);
}
return array_values($sortedItems);
}
orderBy(
[
['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Joy'],
['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Khaja'],
['id' => 1, 'name' => 'Raja']
],
'id',
'desc'
); // [['id' => 3, 'name' => 'Khaja'], ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Joy'], ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'Raja']]
palindrome
- title: palindrome
- tags: string,beginner
Returns true
if the given string is a palindrome, false
otherwise.
- Check if the value of
strrev($string)
is equal to the passed$string
.
function palindrome($string)
{
return strrev($string) === (string) $string;
}
palindrome('racecar'); // true
palindrome(2221222); // true
pluck
- title: pluck
- tags: array,beginner
Retrieves all of the values for a given key.
- Use
array_map()
to map each object in the$items
array to the provided$key
.
function pluck($items, $key)
{
return array_map( function($item) use ($key) {
return is_object($item) ? $item->$key : $item[$key];
}, $items);
}
pluck([
['product_id' => 'prod-100', 'name' => 'Desk'],
['product_id' => 'prod-200', 'name' => 'Chair'],
], 'name');
// ['Desk', 'Chair']
pull
- title: pull
- tags: array,beginner
Mutates the original array to filter out the values specified.
- Use
array_values()
andarray_diff()
to remove the specified values from$items
.
function pull(&$items, ...$params)
{
$items = array_values(array_diff($items, $params));
return $items;
}
$items = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a', 'b', 'c'];
pull($items, 'a', 'c'); // $items will be ['b', 'b']
reject
- title: reject
- tags: array,beginner
Filters the collection using the given callback.
- Use
array_values()
,array_diff()
andarray_filter()
to filter$items
based on$func
.
function reject($items, $func)
{
return array_values(array_diff($items, array_filter($items, $func)));
}
reject(['Apple', 'Pear', 'Kiwi', 'Banana'], function ($item) {
return strlen($item) > 4;
}); // ['Pear', 'Kiwi']
remove
- title: remove
- tags: array,beginner
Removes elements from an array for which the given function returns false
.
- Use
array_filter()
to find array elements that return truthy values andarray_diff_keys()
to remove the elements not contained in$filtered
.
function remove($items, $func)
{
$filtered = array_filter($items, $func);
return array_diff_key($items, $filtered);
}
remove([1, 2, 3, 4], function ($n) {
return ($n % 2) === 0;
});
// [0 => 1, 2 => 3]
rotate
- title: rotate
- tags: array,beginner
Rotates the array (in left direction) by the number of shifts.
- Given the
$shift
index, merge the array values after$shift
with the values before$shift
.
function rotate($array, $shift = 1)
{
for ($i = 0; $i < $shift; $i++) {
array_push($array, array_shift($array));
}
return $array;
}
rotate([1, 3, 5, 2, 4]); // [3, 5, 2, 4, 1]
rotate([1, 3, 5, 2, 4], 2); // [5, 2, 4, 1, 3]
shorten
- title: shorten
- tags: string,beginner
Returns a shortened string.
- Use
mb_strlen()
,mb_substr()
andrtrim()
to shorten a string to a give number of characters.
function shorten($input, $length = 100, $end = '...')
{
if (mb_strlen($input) <= $length) {
return $input;
}
return rtrim(mb_substr($input, 0, $length, 'UTF-8')) . $end;
}
shorten('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog', 15); // The quick brown...
slugify
- title: slugify
- tags: string,intermediate
Converts a string to a URL-friendly slug.
- Uses
preg_replace()
to replace invalid chars with dashes,iconv()
to convert the text to ASCII,strtolower()
andtrim()
to convert to lowercase and remove extra whitespace.
function slugify($text) {
$text = preg_replace('~[^\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('~-+~', '-', $text);
$text = strtolower($text);
$text = trim($text, " \t\n\r\0\x0B-");
if (empty($text)) {
return 'n-a';
}
return $text;
}
slugify('Hello World'); // 'hello-world'
startsWith
- title: startsWith
- tags: string,beginner
Check if a string starts with a given substring.
- Use
strpos()
to find the position of$needle
in$haystack
.
function startsWith($haystack, $needle)
{
return strpos($haystack, $needle) === 0;
}
startsWith('Hi, this is me', 'Hi'); // true
tail
- title: tail
- tags: array,beginner
Returns all elements in an array except for the first one.
- Use
array_slice()
andcount()
to return all the items in the array except for the first one.
function tail($items)
{
return count($items) > 1 ? array_slice($items, 1) : $items;
}
tail([1, 2, 3]); // [2, 3]
take
- title: take
- tags: array,beginner
Returns an array with $n
elements removed from the beginning.
- Use
array_slice()
to remove$n
items from the beginning of the array.
function take($items, $n = 1)
{
return array_slice($items, 0, $n);
}
take([1, 2, 3], 5); // [1, 2, 3]
take([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 2); // [1, 2]
without
- title: without
- tags: array,beginner
Filters out the elements of an array, that have one of the specified values.
- Use
array_values()
andarray_diff()
to remove any values in$params
from$items
.
function without($items, ...$params)
{
return array_values(array_diff($items, $params));
}
without([2, 1, 2, 3], 1, 2); // [3]