A Simple Trick to Organize Your PHP Collections Effectively

This is our Bag class — and yes, we absolutely love its simplicity 🥰

class Bag
{
    public function __construct(public array $items = []) {}
}

HOW TO WORK WITH IT?

The long way (a.k.a. “why make it simple?”)

1. Create collection objects
2. Insert them into another collection
3. Fill them with items

$bagA = new Bag();
$bagB = new Bag();

$preparedObjects = [];
$preparedObjects[] = $bagA;
$preparedObjects[] = $bagB;

$bagA->items[] = 'Bag A item 1';
$bagA->items[] = 'Bag A item 2';

$bagB->items[] = 'Bag B item 1';
$bagB->items[] = 'Bag B item 2';

The simpler way (clean, elegant, instant 😌)

1. Create and insert objects right away
2. Then just fill them

$preparedObjects = [
    $bagA = new Bag(),
    $bagB = new Bag(),
];

$bagA->items[] = 'Bag A item 1';
$bagA->items[] = 'Bag A item 2';

$bagB->items[] = 'Bag B item 1';
$bagB->items[] = 'Bag B item 2';