Added support for type hints

Author: msarca

.travis.yml

@@ -2,15 +2,9 @@ language: php
 
 matrix:
   include:
-    - php: 5.3
-      dist: precise
-    - php: 5.4
-    - php: 5.5
-    - php: 5.6
     - php: 7.0
     - php: 7.1
     - php: 7.2
-    - php: hhvm
   fast_finish: true
 
 sudo: false

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## v1.5.0 - 2018.09.04
+### Removed
+- Support for PHP 5.x
+
+### Added
+- Type hints
+
+### Changed
+-Targeted PHP version is ^7.0
+
 ## v1.4.0 - 2016.08.10
 ### Added
 -  `ensurePrefix` and `ensureSuffix` methods

README.md

@@ -8,30 +8,41 @@ Opis String
 Manipulate multibyte strings
 ----------------------------
 
-This tiny library allows you to manipulate multibyte encoded strings,
-using an object-oriented paradigm. The library has **no dependencies** to
-*mbstring* or similar PHP extensions and is compatible with PHP 5.3+, PHP 7.0 and HHVM.
+Opis String is a tiny library that allows you to work with multibyte encoded strings in an object-oriented manner. 
+The library has no dependencies to *mb_string* or similar PHP extensions.
 
 ### Documentation
 
-Documentation and examples can be found [here](https://www.opis.io/string).
+The full documentation for this library can be found [here][documentation].
 
 ### License
 
-**Opis String** is licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
+**Opis String** is licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0][apache_license].
 
 ### Requirements
 
-* PHP 5.3.* or higher
+* PHP ^7.0
 
-### Installation
+## Installation
 
-This library is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/opis/string) and can be installed using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org).
+**Opis String** is available on [Packagist] and it can be installed from a 
+command line interface by using [Composer]. 
+
+```bash
+composer require opis/string
+```
+
+Or you could directly reference it into your `composer.json` file as a dependency
 
 ```json
 {
     "require": {
-        "opis/string": "^1.4.0"
+        "opis/string": "^1.5"
     }
 }
 ```
+
+[documentation]: https://opis.io/string
+[apache_license]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 "Apache License"
+[Packagist]: https://packagist.org/packages/opis/string "Packagist"
+[Composer]: https://getcomposer.org "Composer"

composer.json

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
     "name": "opis/string",
-    "description": "A standalone library for manipulating multibyte strings",
+    "description": "Multibyte strings as objects",
     "keywords": ["opis", "string", "utf-8", "multi-byte", "string manipulation"],
-    "homepage": "http://opis.io",
+    "homepage": "https://opis.io/string",
     "license": "Apache-2.0",
     "authors": [
         {
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
         }
     ],
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.3.0"
+        "php": ">=7.0.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
-        "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.8"
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "^6.5"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     },
     "extra": {
         "branch-alias": {
-            "dev-master": "1.4.x-dev"
+            "dev-master": "1.5.x-dev"
         }
     }
 }