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halfowl/statemachine
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State Machines made safe and easy.

v1.0.0(3y ago)110[1 issues](https://github.com/half0wl/php-StateMachine/issues)MITPHPPHP >=7.4

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php-StateMachine
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[](#php-statemachine)

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State Machines in PHP made safe and easy.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Using Composer:

```
$ composer require halfowl/statemachine

```

Example
-------

[](#example)

Imagine an application that holds the state of an article. It has the following states:

- Draft
- Awaiting Copy Edit
- Published

A new article starts in "Draft", gets progressed to "Awaiting Copy Edit", and subsequently "Published". An article in "Awaiting Copy Edit" can go back to being a "Draft".

With this library, you can model the above as:

```