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jrmadsen67/mahana-bitmask
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Bit masking to manage settings

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MahanaBitfield
==============

[](#mahanabitfield)

Bit masking to manage settings. Rather than having a few dozen flags on every table, bit masking can be used to reduce them to a single integer value.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require jrmadsen67/mahana-bitmask

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Typically we would use this in conjunction with an MVC model class, so I will use that scenario as an example.

MahanaBitfield is an abstract class, so you will create a simple inherited class for each setting field you wish to have.

This means that if you have a Users table and want to store `settings` in a field, you would make a class like this example:

```
use jrmadsen67\MahanaBitfield\MahanaBitfield;

class UserSettings extends MahanaBitfield
{
    public $flags = [
        'flag1' => 0,
        'flag2' => 1,
        'flag3' => 2,
    ];
}

```

Notice that this DOES NOT work directly with your model; you will have to get/set the `settings` field yourself in a normal manner for your framework or code.

To initialize a class:

`$mbf = new UserSettings;`

To set a particular flag to true/false

`$mbf->flag1 = true;`

To get a particular setting value

`$flag1  = $mbf->flag1;`

To get the bitmask value

`$settings = $mbf->getValue();`

Use setFlags() & getFlags() to work with the whole array at once

```
$userSettings = new UserSettings;

$userSettings->setFlags([
    'flag2' => true,
    'flag3' => true,
]);

```

or

```
$setting_array = $userSettings->getFlags();

/*

var_dump($setting_array);

array(
    'flag2' => true,
    'flag3' => true,
);

*/

```

The tests can provide you with more examples. Questions and PRs welcome!

###  Health Score

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LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

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Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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###  Release Activity

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Total

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Last Release

3560d ago

### Community

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