mouf/utils.value.value-interface

This package contains an interface used by many objects to say they represent a value that can be computed. The concept is very simple, and very powerful at the same time.

v1.0.0 2013-10-29 18:22 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.0

MIT

• David Négrier

• interface
• value
• mouf

README

This package contains an interface used by many objects to declare they represent a unique value.

If your objects represent a single value, they should implement ValueInterface. An object implementing this interface will return a single value when the "val()" method is called. The value can be anything (if you want the value to be a string, a bool, an array or something else, use one of the subinterfaces provided, like StringValueInterface for instance).

This is a very simple and very powerful system.

namespace Mouf\Utils\Value;

interface ValueInterface {
	/**
	 * Returns the value represented by this object.
	 * 
	 * @return mixed
	 */
	public function val();
}

Here are a few samples:

• a class that represents one GET or POST parameter
• a class that represents the result of a complex operation
• a class that represents a user bean
• a class that represents whether the current user has some right
• ...

This package does not only contains the ValueInterface interface. It also contains a number of more specialized interfaces that extend ValueInterface and that represent specific values (like a string or a bool).

Here is a list of all interfaces available in this package:

• ValueInterface
  • ScalarValueInterface
    • StringValueInterface
    • BoolValueInterface
    • NumberValueInterface
      • IntValueInterface
  • ObjectValueInterface
  • ArrayValueInterface
    • MapValueInterface

Mouf package

This package is part of Mouf (http://mouf-php.com), an effort to ensure good developing practices by providing a graphical dependency injection framework.