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Castor Packages

Context

Context passing abstraction for your PHP projects.

The context package provides a simple base class that serves as a context-passing abstraction for your PHP projects.

Installation

Add the Castor repository to your composer.json.

{
  "repositories": [{
    "type": "composer",
    "url": "https://castor-labs.github.io/php-packages"
  }]
}

And then install with composer.

Terminal window
composer require castor/context

Motivation

Currently, PHP doesn’t have a way of passing contextual information like request scoped values down the call stack. Current solutions rely on shared state inside a service (like Symfony’s TokenStorageInterface). This context abstraction is a minimal contract that applications and libraries can implement to pass down request-specific information down the call stack of an application in an explicit and immutable way.

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