Boool

Like a boolean, but with 50% more of the letter "o"!

This package is intended primarily as a helper for boolean-related commands, and allows you to write your code in a way that makes it more legible and easier to understand. Focus is placed on functionality first and foremost, speed and optimization second, so be aware that some of these methods might not be ideal to use in environments requiring high performance.

It accepts an array of statements and returns a true or false depending on which method you use.

Note: The package is currently not strict in its typing, meaning many (but not all!) methods will accept "truthy" values and "falsey" values. If you ask Boool::allTrue([true, true, 1, true, 'hello']), it will return true, as all of those values are "truthy", whereas Boool::allTrue([true, true, 0, true, 'hello']) will return false, as the 0 evaluates as a "falsey" value.

As this behavior is not the same across the board, a future update of this package will ensure that all entries in the array passed into its methods evaluate as strictly true or strictly false, throwing exceptions if the array passed contains entries that evaluate to a non-boolean value.

But Why?

Like so many other packages that came before it, this was built to scratch an itch. I had been writing complex if statements for a project that I was working on, and was beginning to find them difficult to read properly. Refactoring and abstracting the code would only go so far, and I wanted a solution that allowed me to write code in a slightly more legible way. I do realize I'm probably over-engineering things here, but it felt like a reasonable enough project when I started working on it...

Installation and Usage

To install the package:

composer require boool\boool

All methods listed below are available statically on the Boool\Boool class. To use it, simply use it wherever you would use any boolean, such as:

if (Boool::AllTrue($array) && Boool::AnyTrue($other_array)) {
  /* Do something */
}

Available Methods

The following methods are available through the Boool package:

• AllFalse($array) returns true if everything in $array evaluate as false.
  • Aliases: OnlyFalse, EverythingFalse, NoTrue.
• AllTrue($array) returns true if everything in $array evaluate as true.
  • Aliases: All, OnlyTrue, EverythingTrue, NoFalse.
• AnyFalse($array) returns true if at least one entry in $array evaluate as true.
  • Aliases: ContainsFalse, HasFalse.
• AnyTrue($array) returns true if at least one entry in $array evaluate as true.
  • Aliases: Any, ContainsTrue, HasTrue.
• AtLeastFalse($array, $integer) returns true if there are $integer or more false entries in $array.
• AtLeastHalfFalse($array) returns true if half or more of the entries in $array evaluate as false.
• AtLeastHalfTrue($array) returns true if half or more of the entries in $array evaluate as true.
• AtLeastTrue($array, $integer) returns true if there are $integer or more true entries in $array.
• CountTrue($array, $integer) returns true if there are exactly $integer true entries in $array.
  • Aliases: AmountTrue.
• Half($array) returns true if the entries in $array are exactly 50% true and 50% false.
  • Aliases: HalfTrue, HalfFalse.
• MostlyFalse($array) returns true if more than half of the entries in $array evaluate as false.
• MostlyTrue($array) returns true if more than half of the entries in $array evaluate as true.
• Aliases: Most

Coming in Future Versions

• "Parser" methods that extract all true or all false values from an array, returning a new array containing only those values that match the requested criteria.
• A way for third parties to add their own methods to Boool using plugin-type functionality.
• A few global methods like boool_any($array) to act as shortcuts to Boool::AnyTrue($array).

Licence & Copyright

This package is released under an MIT license. Read more in LICENCE in the root folder of the repository.