php-standard-library/php-standard-library

Features

• Asynchronous Network Frameworks - Provides an asynchronous networking library for building servers and clients using low-level protocols like TCP, TLS, and UDP.
• Asynchronous Networking - Builds production-ready asynchronous TCP, TLS, UDP, and Unix socket servers and clients for reliable networking.
• Network Primitives - Provides production-ready asynchronous servers and clients using low-level network primitives like TCP, TLS, UDP, and Unix sockets.
• Enforced Result Handling - Represents computations that either succeeded or failed, replacing traditional error-throwing patterns with explicit success and failure states.
• Functional Programming Libraries - Delivers a functional programming toolkit in PHP providing pure collection transformers, option types, and composable pipelines.
• Structured Concurrency - Manages concurrent execution paths using lightweight user-space threads that coordinate background work safely without callbacks or promises.
• Asynchronous Messaging - Allows passing messages between concurrent tasks using asynchronous communication channels that coordinate background work safely.
• Composable Validation Frameworks - Validates untrusted input data against declarative type definitions and shapes without runtime reflection overhead.
• Type-Safe Schema Validators - Checks untrusted input against composable type definitions and shapes to coerce and validate values safely without reflection.
• Error Handling Patterns - Represents computation outcomes as explicit success and failure states to replace traditional error-throwing patterns and ambiguous returns.
• Functional Collection Utilities - Transforms arrays using pure functions to map, filter, and sort while separating lists from dicts.
• Non-Blocking Event Loops - Drives asynchronous network servers and child processes using low-level input-output primitives wrapped in typed, testable abstractions.
• Optional Value Types - Represents values that may or may not be present to safely replace nullable types and prevent runtime crashes.
• Asynchronous Input-Output Operations - Performs handle-based input and output operations using abstractions instead of global functions for better testing.
• JSON Processing - Encodes and decodes JSON data by throwing typed exceptions instead of returning ambiguous error states.
• Shell Command Execution - Enables running external commands and system processes through a dedicated execution function with stream capture.
• String Processing Libraries - Manipulates strings using Unicode-aware functions that replace standard string operations for proper character handling.
• Associative Arrays - Creates and transforms associative arrays with dedicated functions for dictionary data structures and key lookups.
• Functional Pipeline Composition - Provides functional programming utilities to compose, decorate, and control program flow, streamlining pipeline creation.
• String Manipulations - Replaces standard string operations with multi-byte character processing functions to guarantee proper handling of international text.
• Collection Separation - Distinguishes lists from dictionaries using dedicated functions and return types to prevent unintended array key confusion bugs.
• Data Type Validation - Checks untrusted input against composable type definitions like shapes, unions, and optionals to safely validate values.
• Child Process Execution - Supports spawning and managing child processes using a typed, non-blocking interface for external system execution.
• Asynchronous Spawning - Spawns and manages child processes and external system commands using a typed, non-blocking interface with stream capture.
• Sequential Computation Array Execution - Creates and transforms sequential, zero-indexed arrays with dedicated list utilities that maintain index integrity.
• Type-Safe Comparisons - Compares values consistently and safely using dedicated interfaces and functions that prevent type coercion bugs.

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