intl-sort

A wrapper library for PHP Intl to sort values/objects based on rules of locales.

This library wraps the Collator class of the PHP Intl extension and offers a more fluid API without constant juggling for you to sort your values or objects by country/locale specific standards.

Why using this library?

PHP functions like sort() work most of the time when it comes to sort values, but they don't return useful results when a country or language specific order of values is needed like e.g. words with umlauts or other accents.

This library wraps the Collator class of the PHP Intl extension and offers a builder pattern API to create a Sorter to sort values or value objects by the rules of a locale. You also can implement your own sorting logic.

Installation

You can install this with Composer.

composer require senseexception/intl-sort

Documentation

Read more about what this library is capable of in the documentation.

Examples

While PHP's own sort functions don't order the elements in a way that is expected in different countries, intl-sort will sort them with the help of the Intl-extension appropriate for the countries in your international project.

Ascending order

$sortBuilder = new \Budgegeria\IntlSort\Builder('de_DE');
$sorter = $sortBuilder->getSorter();
$sortedArray = $sorter->sort(['a', 'g', 'A', 'ß', 'ä', 'j', 'z']);
var_dump($sortedArray); // [0 => 'a', 2 => 'A', 4 => 'ä', 1 => 'g', 5 => 'j', 3 => 'ß', 6 => 'z'];

Descending order

$sortBuilder = new \Budgegeria\IntlSort\Builder('de_DE');
$sorter = $sortBuilder->orderByDesc()->getSorter();
$sortedArray = $sorter->sort(['a', 'g', 'A', 'ß', 'ä', 'j', 'z']);
var_dump($sortedArray); // [0 => 'z', 1 => 'ß', 2 => 'j', 3 => 'g', 4 => 'ä', 5 => 'A', 6 => 'a',];

Order by keys

$sortBuilder = new \Budgegeria\IntlSort\Builder('de_DE');
$sorter = $sortBuilder->orderByKeys()->getSorter();
$sortedArray = $sorter->sort(['g' => 1, 'A' => 2, 'ß' => 3, 'ä' => 4, 'z' => 5]);
var_dump($sortedArray); // ['A' => 2, 'ä' => 4, 'g' => 1, 'ß' => 3, 'z' => 5];

$sortBuilder = new \Budgegeria\IntlSort\Builder('de_DE');
$sorter = $sortBuilder->orderByKeys()->orderByDesc()->getSorter();
$sortedArray = $sorter->sort(['g' => 1, 'A' => 2, 'ß' => 3, 'ä' => 4, 'z' => 5]);
var_dump($sortedArray); // ['z' => 5, 'ß' => 3, 'g' => 1, 'ä' => 4, 'A' => 2,];

There are also more configuration possibilities in the builder like setting strength, lower case first / upper case first or special french collation.

Does it affect GDPR somehow?

intl-sort itself uses the locale only for the purposes to sort values with the help of the PHP Intl extension.