Maarten Balliauw 10/22/2007

Generic arrays in PHP

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This technical article discusses how to simulate generic arrays in PHP, which does not natively support generics. It presents two approaches: one using inheritance from ArrayObject with type hinting for specific classes, and a more flexible method using a custom GenericArrayObject class with a configurable validation function to enforce type constraints on array elements.

Generic arrays in PHP

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