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patchlevel/enum
===============

Small lightweight library to create enum in PHP without SPLEnum and strict comparisons allowed

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enum
====

[](#enum)

Small lightweight library to create enum in PHP without SPLEnum and strict comparisons allowed.

dislcaimer
----------

[](#dislcaimer)

For project that are build on PHP >=8.1 please use the language build in Enums described in this rfc: This library should not be needed anymore and will not support PHP >8.1.

installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require patchlevel/enum

```

declaration
-----------

[](#declaration)

First of all you have to define your enum. To do this, you have to inherit from the `Enum` class, create a few constants (the value must be unique and a string) and define methods that return an enum representation. Here is an example:

```