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The Collection interface

Collection is the base interface which covers functionality common to all the data structures in this library. It guarantees that all structures are traversable, countable, and can be converted to json using json_encode.

Intro

Collection is the base interface which covers functionality common to all the data structures in this library. It guarantees that all structures are traversable, countable, and can be converted to json using json_encode().

Interfacesynopsis

implements Ds\Collection extends Countable implements IteratorAggregate implements JsonSerializable { }

Changelog

VersionDescription
PECL ds 1.4.0Collection implements IteratorAggregate now instead of just Traversable. (This change came to the polyfill in 1.4.1.)

Collection

Source: reference/ds/ds.collection.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)