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vladdesv/simple-enum
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Dead simple enum

1.2.0(5y ago)018MITPHPPHP >=5.3

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SimpleEnum
==========

[](#simpleenum)

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Dead simple PHP enum. This thing runs on PHP 5.3, heck maybe even PHP 5.1.2\*, so just yoink the files if you need it for your Legacy project.

\* This enum uses the Reflection class, which was introduced in PHP 5.1.2

Why?
----

[](#why)

I come from C-like languages with proper enums. Why is there no such simple, built-in, proper, enum in PHP?

The [SplEnum](https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.splenum.php) looks promising, but has some oddities with its implementation. As an added bonus, it might not work for [your setup](https://stackoverflow.com/a/57885080).

Other third-party alternatives (see [this](https://github.com/spatie/enum), [this](https://github.com/myclabs/php-enum), [this](https://github.com/DASPRiD/Enum), and [this](https://github.com/marc-mabe/php-enum) for instance) are overly complicated for my needs. This should probably solve it for most of my use cases.

Example
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[](#example)

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