Circular Array

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From Wikipedia:

A circular buffer,
circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single,
fixed-size buffer as if it
were connected end-to-end.
This structure lends itself easily to buffering data streams.

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require php-snippets/circular-array

Usage

You can create an array where an interaction occurs indefinitely:

use PHPSnippets\DataStructures\CircularArray;

$circular = Circular::fromArray(array(1, 2, 3, 4));

// this foreach never ends, after 4 back to 1.
foreach($circular as $value){
    echo $value;
}

Requirements

The following versions of PHP are supported by this version.

• PHP >= 5.3

Testing

$ vendor/bin/phpunit

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CONDUCT for details.

Credits

• Webysther Nunes
• All Contributors

License

MIT. Please see License File for more information.