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recycledbeans/useful-things
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A collection of helpers and useful things for developing PHP applications

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Useful Things for PHP
=====================

[](#useful-things-for-php)

A collection of helpers and useful things for developing PHP applications.

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

[](#installation)

Use composer to include the latest version.

```
composer require recycledbeans/useful-things
```

Money
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[](#money)

Contains a helpful trait to use when converting monetary values back and forth between float values (for display) and integer values (for storage and arithmetic).

The example below is a Laravel Eloquent model that has an accessor that formats the amount to a float value from how it is stored in the database (as an integer) when the attribute is accessed, and a mutator that sets the value back to an integer value before it is stored in the database.

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