Constructure by Array of configuration about php-units-of-measure HOT 4 CLOSED

I'm not sure what you mean, what change to the constructor signature are you proposing? The interface for instantiating the object in your example seems the same as the current constructor; am I missing something?

Regardless, as far as the proposed change to allow for multiple conversions at once, I disagree that there's a need for it. How is it any better than:

$area = new Area(1000200.000304, 'm^2');
$actual = array();
foreach (array('km^2', 'm^2', 'cm^2', 'mm^2') as $to_unit ) {
    $actual[$to_unit] = $area->toUnit($to_unit);
}

Moving this sort of behavior into a library doesn't really gain any additional utility, and it adds costs in terms of library complexity and obscure interfaces.

I'd rather keep this library as straightforward as possible, unless there's a compelling need to add additional behavior. Does that make sense?

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Hi, it doesn't work like that because we don't have function to get modulation yet.

In my case 1.5 km should return as 1km + 500m (something like these) or 1.1 ft may return in 1 ft + 1/12 inches. or Time 86700 secs may return as 1 day + 5 minutes or 5100mg may return as 5g + 100 mg.

For my real usage (sorry, for example about Thai area unit), we use Rai (equals to 400 sq.m.) Ngan (equals to 100 sq.m.) and Sq.Wa (4 sq.m).

We don't say 401 sq.m. , we don't say 100.25 Sq. Wa. but we say 1 Rai + 0.25 Sq. Wa.

something like that.

I'm missing one part, in previously, I have put the fraction part as here
https://github.com/scalopus/php-units-of-measure/blob/master/source/PhpUnitsOfMeasure/UnitOfMeasure.php#L53

but your repository just merged #9 in the master here.
https://github.com/triplepoint/php-units-of-measure/blob/master/source/PhpUnitsOfMeasure/UnitOfMeasure.php#L53

so, I just think that it would be too long and complicate to method to add some more option to the constructor.

What I proposed is that may use something like

new UnitOfMeasure(array(
'from_native_unit ' => .....,
'to_native_unit' => ......,
'alias' => ......,
'fraction' => ......,
'translator' => .....,
etc...
));

because the multiple unit may not have to implement in all UnitOfMeasure (Like Temperature), so, I think that to make it as above, it will be like optional.

let me know if this kind of feature should be in this library.

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Actually I'm proposing more than this.

We can actually put all these into a definitions file and a loader will load the configuration. (maybe we can use packfire/config)

The units are not defined in the code, but in the definitions file.

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Ah, I'm sorry Scalopus, I misunderstood your first example. I see now what you're getting at.

It's a neat idea, but I think it's beyond the complexity limit that I'm willing to entertain for this project. I'd encourage you to explore this idea in a separate library, maybe using this one internally to do some of the conversions?

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