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smoren/nested-accessor
======================

Accessor for getting and setting values of nested data structures (arrays or objects)

v0.1.16(3y ago)101.1k32MITPHPPHP >=7.4.0

Since Aug 28Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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nested-accessor
===============

[](#nested-accessor)

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Accessor for getting and setting values of nested data structures (arrays or objects).

### How to install to your project

[](#how-to-install-to-your-project)

```
composer require smoren/nested-accessor

```

### Unit testing

[](#unit-testing)

```
composer install
composer test-init
composer test

```

### Usage

[](#usage)

#### NestedAccessor

[](#nestedaccessor)

```
use Smoren\NestedAccessor\Components\NestedAccessor;

$source = [
    'data' => [
        'id' => 1,
        'name' => 'Countries classifier',
        'extra' => null,
        'country_names' => ['Russia', 'Belarus'],
    ],
    'countries' => [
        [
            'name' => 'Russia',
            'cities' => [
                [
                    'name' => 'Moscow',
                    'extra' => [
                        'codes' => [
                            ['value' => 7495],
                            ['value' => 7499],
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
                [
                    'name' => 'Petersburg',
                    'extra' => [
                        'codes' => [
                            ['value' => 7812],
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
        [
            'name' => 'Belarus',
            'cities' => [
                [
                    'name' => 'Minsk',
                    'extra' => [
                        'codes' => [
                            ['value' => 375017],
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ]
];

$accessor = new NestedAccessor($input);

echo $accessor->get('data.name'); // 'Countries classifier'
print_r($accessor->get('countries.name')); // ['Russia', 'Belarus']
print_r($accessor->get('countries.cities.name')); // ['Moscow', 'Petersburg', 'Minsk']
print_r($accessor->get('countries.cities.extra.codes.value')); // [7495, 7499, 7812, 375017]

var_dump($accessor->isset('data.name')); // true
var_dump($accessor->isset('data.extra')); // false
var_dump($accessor->isset('this.path.not.exist')); // false

var_dump($accessor->exist('data.name')); // true
var_dump($accessor->exist('data.extra')); // true
var_dump($accessor->exist('this.path.not.exist')); // false

$accessor->set('data.name', 'New name');
echo $accessor->get('data.name'); // 'New name'

$accessor->append('data.country_names', 'Mexico');
echo $accessor->get('data.country_names'); // ['Russia', 'Belarus', 'Mexico']

$accessor->delete('data.name');
var_dump($accessor->exist('data.name')); // false
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~17 days

Recently: every ~36 days

Total

17

Last Release

1116d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7403235?v=4)[Smoren](/maintainers/smoren)[@Smoren](https://github.com/Smoren)

---

Top Contributors

[![Smoren](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7403235?v=4)](https://github.com/Smoren "Smoren (24 commits)")[![peter279k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9021747?v=4)](https://github.com/peter279k "peter279k (1 commits)")

---

Tags

accessornested-structuresphpphp-librarynestedaccessor

###  Code Quality

TestsCodeception

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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