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Simplex
Simplex is a Pimple 3 fork with full PSR-11 compliance and cross-framework service-provider support.
Simplex is a small dependency injection container for PHP.
Differences with Pimple
Simplex is a fork of Pimple's code. The only differences are the following:
Simplex\Container
implementsContainerInterface
, which means the following methods exist:$container->get($id)
which is an alias to$container[$id]
$container->has($id)
which is an alias toisset($container[$id])
- for symmetry reasons,
Simplex\Container
also provides an additional method:$container->set($id, $value)
which is an alias to$container[$id] = ...
- the constructor takes an optional
ContainerInterface $rootContainer = null
argument to support the delegate lookup feature: if provided, this container will be injected in factories instead - service providers have been completely replaced by container-interop's service providers: that allows to load cross-framework modules in this container
- it is possible to extend a scalar value with
$container->extend()
(for compatibility reasons with cross-framework service providers)
Below is the documentation of Pimple/Simplex.
Installation
composer require mnapoli/simplex
Usage
Creating a container is a matter of creating a Container
instance:
$container = new \Simplex\Container();
Defining Services
A service is an object that does something as part of a larger system. Examples of services: a database connection, a templating engine, or a mailer. Almost any global object can be a service.
Services are defined by anonymous functions that return an instance of an object:
// define some services
$container['session_storage'] = function ($c) {
return new SessionStorage('SESSION_ID');
};
$container['session'] = function ($c) {
return new Session($c['session_storage']);
};
Notice that the anonymous function has access to the current container instance, allowing references to other services or parameters.
As objects are only created when you get them, the order of the definitions does not matter.
Using the defined services is also very easy:
// get the session object
$session = $container['session'];
// the above call is roughly equivalent to the following code:
// $storage = new SessionStorage('SESSION_ID');
// $session = new Session($storage);
Defining Factory Services
By default, each time you get a service, Pimple returns the same instance
of it. If you want a different instance to be returned for all calls, wrap your
anonymous function with the factory()
method
$container['session'] = $container->factory(function ($c) {
return new Session($c['session_storage']);
});
Now, each call to $container['session']
returns a new instance of the
session.
Defining Parameters
Defining a parameter allows to ease the configuration of your container from the outside and to store global values:
// define some parameters
$container['cookie_name'] = 'SESSION_ID';
$container['session_storage_class'] = 'SessionStorage';
If you change the session_storage
service definition like below:
$container['session_storage'] = function ($c) {
return new $c['session_storage_class']($c['cookie_name']);
};
You can now easily change the cookie name by overriding the
session_storage_class
parameter instead of redefining the service
definition.
Protecting Parameters
Because Pimple sees anonymous functions as service definitions, you need to
wrap anonymous functions with the protect()
method to store them as
parameters:
$container['random_func'] = $container->protect(function () {
return rand();
});
Modifying Services after Definition
In some cases you may want to modify a service definition after it has been
defined. You can use the extend()
method to define additional code to be
run on your service just after it is created:
$container['session_storage'] = function ($c) {
return new $c['session_storage_class']($c['cookie_name']);
};
$container->extend('session_storage', function ($storage, $c) {
$storage->...();
return $storage;
});
The first argument is the name of the service to extend, the second a function that gets access to the object instance and the container.
Service providers
Simplex supports registering cross-framework service providers.
To register service providers, pass an array of service providers as first constructor argument.
$container = new \Simplex\Container([new MyServiceProvider()]);