Temporal collections

This library provides temporal collection classes, which can be used to easily implement temporal properties.

Installation

Use Composer to add the library to your dependencies:

$ php composer.phar require thewilkybarkid/temporal-collections:~1.0@dev

Usage

$collection = new \TheWilkyBarKid\TemporalCollections\OpenEndedTemporalCollection();

$collection->get('1950-01-01'); // returns null
$collection->get('1975-01-01'); // returns null
$collection->get('2000-01-01'); // returns null

$collection->set('foo', '1975-01-01', '1999-12-31');

$collection->get('1950-01-01'); // returns null
$collection->get('1975-01-01'); // returns 'foo'
$collection->get('2000-01-01'); // returns null

$collection->set('bar', '1990-01-01', null);

$collection->get('1950-01-01'); // returns null
$collection->get('1975-01-01'); // returns 'foo'
$collection->get('2000-01-01'); // returns 'bar'