A formatting library that converts data output between XML, CSV, JSON, TXT, YAML and a few others.

#Changelog

• Update support for Laravel 6 & phpunit 8
• Update composer.json
• Upgrade to PSR-4
• add parameter newline, delimiter, enclosure, and escape to export csv
• When converting a XML to an array, convert @attributes to attribute
• add parameter encoding and formated to export xml
• JSON parse fix (Instead of only converting the first level to array, use the associative array parameter with true, so all levels will be decoded to array structure)
• Add support for laravel 5
• add package discovery for laravel 5
• add support delimiter to a csv

#Formatter Bundle

A formatter package that will help you to easily convert between various formats such as XML, JSON, CSV, etc...

#Goals

The goals of this library are to allow the transfomation of data formats from one type to another. See Parsers and Formats to see supported input / output formats.

#Installation

Through command line:

composer require soapbox/laravel-formatter

Through composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "soapbox/laravel-formatter": "2.x"
  }
}

#Parsers

All of the following are supported formats that the formatter can read from.

• Array
• CSV
• JSON
• XML
• YAML

#Formats

All of the following are formats that are supported for output.

• Array
• CSV
• JSON
• XML
• YAML

#General Usage

Including The Formatter

use SoapBox\Formatter\Formatter;

Supported Types

Formatter::JSON; //json
Formatter::CSV;  //csv
Formatter::XML;  //xml
Formatter::ARR;  //array
Formatter::YAML; //yaml

Making Your First Formatter(s)

$formatter = Formatter::make($jsonString, Formatter::JSON);
$formatter = Formatter::make($yamlString, Formatter::YAML);
$formatter = Formatter::make($array, Formatter::ARR);
...

Outputting From Your Formatter

$csv   = $formatter->toCsv();
$json  = $formatter->toJson();
$xml   = $formatter->toXml();
$array = $formatter->toArray();
$yaml  = $formatter->toYaml();

#Deprecated Functionality

The following have been deprecated from the library, however you can easily continue using them in your application

Serialized Array

$serialized = serialize($formatter->toArray());

PHP Export

$export = var_export($formatter->toArray());