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GeekLab-ArrayTranslation

Convert an array to another data format or convert a data format to an array.

Supports:

• JSON
• XML
• PHP internal session serialized data
• PHP internal binary serialized data
• PHP Serialized() data
• YAML

Todo:

• WDDX support
• igbinary support

Installation:

composer require geeklab/arraytranslation

Usage:

<?php
require_once('../vendor/autoload.php');

$at  =  \GeekLab\ArrayTranslation::create('yaml');
$out = $at->encode(array('a' => 'x', 'b' => y', 'c' => 'z');

API:

\GeekLab\ArrayTranslation::create(string $type, string $handler): object

Description:

This is the factory to return the class for array<->data type translation.

$type can be set to xml, json, yaml, php, php_binary or php_binary for now.

$handler is for pointing to a customer handler. Must implement GeekLab\ArrayTranslation\TranslationInterface

Usage:

$at = \GeekLab\ArrayTranslation::create('json');

\GeekLab\ArrayTranslation::encode(array $arr): string

Description:

This method will convert an array to the type the object was created with.

Usage:

$x = $at->encode(array('a', 'b', 'c'));

\GeekLab\ArrayTranslation::encode(string $str): array

Description:

This method will convert a string (data type) to an array.

Usage:

$y = $at->decode('["a","b","c"]');