CollectionTrait

Initializes a new manager instance.

This is useful for implementations that have their own __construct method This is an alias for reset()

Hydrate with external data, optionally append

Adds a single item.

Allow for dot notation (one.two.three) and item nesting.

Updates an item

Push a value or values onto the end of an array inside manager

Get a single item

Return an item if it exist

Return an item if it exist Alias of getIfExists()

Return all items as array

Return all items as array Alias of getAll()

Confirm or deny that an item exists

Confirm or deny that an item exists Alias of exists()

Confirm that manager has no items

Deletes an item

Clear the manager

Reset the manager with an array of items Alias of initManager()

Get the collection of items as JSON.

When manager instance is used as a string, return json of items

Converts an array to a collection if value is arrayable and config is set

Does this instance want collections returned from get() and getAll()?

Invokes when calling a method on the Collection API

This method simply decides how to handle the method call. 1. The class is using the ChainsNestedItemsTrait and Collection API does NOT contain the method Let ChainsNestedItemsTrait do its thing 2. The Collection API DOES contain the method Pass the method call along to the third party Collection API 3. The method does not exist on the class or in the Collection API Throw an Exception